Questions & Answers about Anneanne bahçede oturuyor.
Why is the word for grandma anneanne?
It literally translates to 'mother-mother' (anne + anne). In Turkish, this specific word is used for your maternal grandmother (your mother's mother). Your father's mother would be babaanne.
What does the -de do at the end of bahçede?
The suffix -de tells us 'where' something is happening. It means 'in', 'on', or 'at'. Since bahçe means 'garden', adding -de turns it into 'in the garden'.
The current lesson is about vowel narrowing before -yor. Does that happen in oturuyor?
No, because the root of the verb is otur-, which ends in a consonant (r). Vowel narrowing only happens when a verb root ends in a or e. Here, we simply add a connecting vowel before -yor.
How do we know which connecting vowel to use before -yor in oturuyor?
We use four-way vowel harmony. We look at the last vowel in the verb root otur-, which is u. The rule says that if the last vowel is o or u, the connecting vowel must also be u, giving us oturuyor.
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