Breakdown of Annem akşam fasulye pişirdi, çok lezzetliydi.
çok
very
anne
mother
pişirmek
to cook
akşam
evening
lezzetli
delicious
fasulye
beans
Questions & Answers about Annem akşam fasulye pişirdi, çok lezzetliydi.
Why is 'in the evening' just akşam instead of akşamda?
In Turkish, common time periods like sabah (morning), akşam (evening), and gece (night) do not take the locative case suffix -da or -de (in/at/on) when describing when an action happens. You just use the plain word.
The translation says 'beans' (plural), but fasulye lacks the plural suffix -ler. Why?
When talking about a general category of food or a non-specific direct object, Turkish keeps the noun singular. Saying fasulyeler would mean specific, individual beans, rather than the meal as a whole.
I've seen the verb pişmek for 'to cook'. Why is it pişirmek (pişirdi) here?
Pişmek is used when the food itself is cooking. When a person is cooking the food, you must use pişirmek. Since the mother is doing the action to the beans, we use the past tense of pişirmek, which is pişirdi.
Why is there a -y- in lezzetliydi?
The adjective lezzetli (delicious) ends in a vowel. When attaching the past tense suffix -di (was) directly to a word that ends in a vowel, Turkish requires the buffer letter -y- to connect them smoothly. This makes it lezzetli-y-di.
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