Breakdown of Anne ve anneanne çorba yapıyor.
ve
and
yapmak
to do / to make
çorba
soup
anne
mother
anneanne
maternal grandmother
Questions & Answers about Anne ve anneanne çorba yapıyor.
Why is grandma anneanne? Is it literally "mom-mom"?
Yes! Anneanne is made by putting anne (mother) together twice, meaning your maternal grandmother. If you were talking about your father's mother, you would use babaanne instead.
"Mom and grandma" are two people. Why does the verb not have a plural ending like yapıyorlar?
In Turkish, when the subject of the sentence is a plural human (like anne ve anneanne), making the verb plural is optional. You can say either yapıyor or yapıyorlar, and both are completely correct.
Does the verb yapıyor use vowel narrowing here?
No, it doesn't. Vowel narrowing only happens when a verb root ends in a vowel. The root for to do or to make is yap-, which ends in a consonant. To add the continuous -yor suffix, we just use the connecting vowel ı to link them, giving us yapıyor.
Why is it just çorba and not çorbayı?
Because they are making soup in general, not one specific bowl or pot of soup. When a direct object is general and non-specific (just soup instead of the soup), it stays in its plain dictionary form without any extra endings.
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