Word
Eskiden fuarda kimi seyyar satıcıdan alışveriş yapar, kimi hiç para harcamazdı.
Meaning
In the past, at the fair, some would shop from the street vendor, some would spend no money at all.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Eskiden fuarda kimi seyyar satıcıdan alışveriş yapar, kimi hiç para harcamazdı.
para
money
hiç
at all / any
satıcı
seller / shopkeeper
harcamak
to spend (money, time)
Questions & Answers about Eskiden fuarda kimi seyyar satıcıdan alışveriş yapar, kimi hiç para harcamazdı.
The lesson is about kimi(si) ... kimi(si) ..., but here we only see kimi ... kimi .... Is there a difference between kimi and kimisi here?
No, they mean the exact same thing ("some"). You can use kimi, kimisi, or even their plural form kimileri to mean "some people." Using kimi ... kimi ... sounds slightly more concise, but they are fully interchangeable in this context.
Why is the first verb just yapar (present aorist) while the second is harcamazdı (past aorist)? Shouldn't it be yapardı?
The past tense marker -dı on the final verb harcamazdı applies to the first verb yapar as well. In Turkish, when you have multiple verbs in the same tense separated by commas, it is very common to drop the tense or person endings on all but the final verb to avoid repetition. Because of the ending on the last verb, yapar is understood as yapardı ("would do").
Why does satıcı (vendor) take the ablative -dan case here?
The phrase alışveriş yapmak (to do shopping) takes the ablative case (-dan / -den) to indicate the person or place you are buying from. While in English we might say "shop at the vendor," Turkish focuses on where the goods are coming from.
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