Breakdown of Çocuklar hayvanat bahçesini çok seviyor.
çocuk
child
çok
very
sevmek
to love, to like
hayvanat bahçesi
zoo
Questions & Answers about Çocuklar hayvanat bahçesini çok seviyor.
Why does bahçe have the ending -sini in hayvanat bahçesini?
Hayvanat bahçesi (zoo) is a noun compound, literally meaning "garden of animals." The -si is a marker linking the two words. Because the verb sevmek (to love) requires a specific direct object, we have to add the accusative case -i. The -n- is a buffer letter to separate the two vowels, giving us bahçe-si-n-i.
Since the subject is çocuklar (children), shouldn't the verb be pluralized as seviyorlar?
It can be, but it's optional! In Turkish, when a plural human subject is already explicitly stated in the sentence (like çocuklar), you don't have to add the plural suffix -lar to the verb. Leaving it as seviyor is perfectly correct and very common.
Is hayvanat the standard plural form for "animals"?
No, the everyday word for animal is hayvan, and its regular plural is hayvanlar. Hayvanat is an older borrowed word that inherently means "animals," but in modern Turkish, you will almost exclusively see it frozen in this specific phrase for zoo (hayvanat bahçesi).
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