Word
Ailem eğitime çok önem veriyor.
Meaning
My family attaches great importance to education.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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.