Questions & Answers about Bebek için pijama satın aldık.
Why use satın aldık instead of just aldık?
The verb almak is very versatile and can mean 'to take', 'to get', or 'to buy'. Using the compound verb satın almak makes it absolutely clear that you specifically mean 'to purchase'. However, just saying aldık would also be completely natural here, as the context implies buying.
Why is pijama singular here when the English translation says 'pyjamas'?
First, Turkish doesn't treat clothing items with two legs as inherently plural like English does (so pijama, pantolon for pants, and şort for shorts are all singular words). Second, when stating the general category of a thing you bought as a direct object, Turkish usually leaves the noun singular.
Does the postposition için (for) require a special case ending on the word bebek?
No, when için is used with regular nouns like bebek (baby) or araba (car), the noun stays in its plain dictionary form. As a quick review from earlier lessons, you only need to add genitive endings when using için with personal pronouns, like benim için (for me).
This lesson is about hem... hem... (both... and...). How could I use that here to say 'We bought both pyjamas and shoes for the baby'?
You would place the correlative conjunctions directly before the items you are listing. The sentence would become: Bebek için hem pijama hem ayakkabı satın aldık.
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