Breakdown of Ailem eğitime çok önem veriyor.
çok
very
aile
family
eğitim
training
önem vermek
to attach importance to
Questions & Answers about Ailem eğitime çok önem veriyor.
Why is eğitim written as eğitime with an -e at the end?
The phrase önem vermek (to attach importance / to care) literally translates to "giving importance." Just like in English where you give importance to something, Turkish requires the target of this phrase to take the dative case (the "to/for" direction). Thus, eğitim becomes eğitime.
Is ailem grammatically singular or plural?
It is singular. Even though a family has multiple members, aile is a collective noun. Because of this, it takes the third-person singular verb ending, giving us veriyor instead of the plural veriyorlar.
The English translation says "great importance," but the Turkish uses çok. Can I use büyük instead?
Yes, you can! Çok önem veriyor literally means "gives a lot of importance," but büyük önem veriyor ("gives big/great importance") is also a very common and natural phrase in Turkish. Both are completely correct here.
Since this lesson is about olarak (as), how could I rewrite this to say "As a family, we attach great importance to education"?
You would drop the possessive -m from ailem, add olarak, and change the verb to the "we" form. The sentence becomes: Aile olarak eğitime çok önem veriyoruz.
How is the word eğitim (education) formed?
It comes from the verb root eğitmek (to educate, to train). The suffix -im is often used in Turkish to turn a verb into a noun. You've probably seen this with other words, like seçmek (to choose) becoming seçim (choice/election).
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