Questions & Answers about Bacaklarım çok yorgun.
How do you break down the word bacaklarım?
It is made up of three parts: the root noun bacak (leg), the plural suffix -lar (legs), and the first-person possessive suffix -ım (my). Altogether, bacak-lar-ım means "my legs".
This lesson is about the buffer letter "n". Why isn't there an "n" in bacaklarım?
The buffer -n- is only used after the third-person possessive suffix (meaning "his", "her", "its", or "their") before adding a case suffix. Because bacaklarım uses the first-person possessive suffix -ım (meaning "my"), it doesn't trigger the buffer letter rule.
Where is the word for "are" in this sentence?
In Turkish, the "to be" verb (am, is, are) is often invisible in the present tense, especially for "it" or "they" subjects. Saying Bacaklarım çok yorgun directly translates to "My legs very tired", which automatically implies the "are".
Since "legs" is plural, shouldn't yorgun (tired) also have a plural suffix like yorgunlar?
No. In Turkish, when a plural subject is non-human (like "legs", "cars", or "cats"), the verb or adjective at the end of the sentence must stay in the singular form. We just use yorgun.
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