Questions & Answers about Sevgilisine her gün aşk mektupları yazıyormuş.
Why does the verb end in -yormuş instead of just -mış?
yazıyormuş combines the continuous suffix -ıyor with the hearsay suffix -muş. While yazmış just means "apparently he wrote," yazıyormuş means "apparently he writes" (as an ongoing habit) or "I heard he is writing." Adding -miş or -muş to other tenses is a common way to express that you heard the information second-hand.
Can you break down the suffixes on sevgilisine?
The base word is sevgili (sweetheart). First, we add the third-person possessive suffix -si to mean "his sweetheart". Then, we need the dative case -e ("to") because the verb yazmak (to write) requires it. When adding a case ending after a third-person possessive suffix, Turkish requires the buffer letter -n-. That gives us sevgili-si-n-e.
Why is there an -ı at the end of aşk mektupları?
This is because aşk mektubu (love letter) is a noun compound. When combining two nouns, Turkish attaches a possessive suffix to the second word to link them. To make it plural, you add the plural suffix -lar first, and then the compound marker -ı, resulting in aşk mektupları.
Since -ıyor usually means an action happening right now, why is it translated as "writes" instead of "is writing"?