Word
Seyyar satıcılar bağırdıktan sonra kimi meyve aldı, kimi hemen dağıldı.
Meaning
After the street vendors shouted, some bought fruit, some immediately dispersed.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Seyyar satıcılar bağırdıktan sonra kimi meyve aldı, kimi hemen dağıldı.
almak
to take, to buy
bağırmak
to shout
meyve
fruit
satıcı
seller / shopkeeper
Questions & Answers about Seyyar satıcılar bağırdıktan sonra kimi meyve aldı, kimi hemen dağıldı.
The lesson teaches kimisi ... kimisi, but this sentence uses kimi ... kimi. Is there a difference?
In this context, they are perfectly interchangeable and both mean 'some ... some ...'. The -si in kimisi is a possessive suffix implying 'some of them,' but here the context already makes it clear we are talking about the people in the crowd.
Why are the verbs aldı and dağıldı singular if kimi refers to multiple people?
In Turkish, when the subject is an indefinite pronoun like kimi (some), kimse (nobody), or herkes (everyone), the verb is almost always singular. Even though we translate it as 'some people,' grammatically the subject is treated as singular.
The street vendors are plural. Why doesn't bağırdıktan get a plural or possessive suffix to match them?
The structure -DIktAn sonra (after doing) is a fixed adverbial clause that doesn't take possessive suffixes. It simply attaches to the verb root. If you wanted to explicitly link the action to the vendors using a possessive, you would use the verbal noun form instead: seyyar satıcıların bağırmasından sonra.
I know the word dağınık (messy). Is dağıldı related to that?