Breakdown of Öksürük için eczaneden ilaç aldım.
almak
to take, to buy
ilaç
medicine
için
for
eczane
pharmacy
öksürük
cough
Questions & Answers about Öksürük için eczaneden ilaç aldım.
Why doesn't ilaç have an accusative ending like ilacı?
Because it is an indefinite direct object. In Turkish, if you are talking about buying 'some medicine' or medicine in general, rather than 'the' specific medicine, you just use the plain dictionary form of the noun without any case ending.
Why do we use aldım for 'bought' when it often translates to 'took'?
The verb almak means both 'to take' and 'to buy'. Context tells you which one is meant. When dealing with shops, markets, or a pharmacy (eczane), it is almost always understood as buying.
How would I apply this lesson's necessity grammar to say 'I need to buy medicine for the cough'?
You would change the past tense verb aldım to the necessity structure. Take almak, drop the infinitive, and add the short verbal noun suffix -ma plus the 'my' possessive -m. Add lazım at the end. The sentence becomes: Öksürük için eczaneden ilaç almam lazım.
How does için work in this sentence?
İçin means 'for' and is a postposition. Unlike English prepositions that go before a noun, Turkish postpositions always come after the word they relate to. Therefore, 'for the cough' becomes öksürük için (literally 'cough for').
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