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Kendi arabanı modifiye etmek insana büyük bir gurur verir.

Kendi arabanı modifiye etmek insana büyük bir gurur verir.
Modifying your own car gives one great pride.
From Lesson 367:Emphatic possessive (kendi)·Turkish

Breakdown of Kendi arabanı modifiye etmek insana büyük bir gurur verir.

bir
a / an
araba
car
büyük
big
insan
person
vermek
to give
kendi
self
gurur
pride
modifiye etmek
to modify

Questions & Answers about Kendi arabanı modifiye etmek insana büyük bir gurur verir.

Why does the sentence use the "your" possessive suffix in arabanı when it translates to a general "gives one great pride"?
The target structure is kendi + Noun + possessive suffix. Here, araba-n means "your car", and adding kendi makes it emphatically "your own car". In Turkish, just like the generic "you" in English, the 2nd person singular is frequently used to make general statements that apply to anyone. It's perfectly natural for it to share a sentence with insana ("to a person/to one").
Why does arabanı have the -ı suffix at the end?
That is the accusative case suffix. Kendi arabanı (your own car) is the direct object of the verb modifiye etmek (to modify). Because the noun has a possessive suffix (-n), it is considered a specific direct object, which always requires the accusative ending (here, -ı).
If arabanı is the object, what is the subject of the main verb verir?
The entire infinitive phrase Kendi arabanı modifiye etmek (Modifying your own car) acts as the subject of the sentence. It is the action that gives (verir) great pride.
Why is the word order büyük bir gurur instead of bir büyük gurur?
When an adjective and the indefinite article bir (a/an) modify the same noun, Turkish places the adjective before bir. The standard formula is Adjective + bir + Noun, so we get büyük bir gurur rather than the English order of "a great pride".
Why is the main verb verir in the aorist tense instead of the present continuous veriyor?
The aorist tense (-ir) is the go-to tense for expressing general facts, timeless truths, and typical human behaviors. Because this sentence is stating a broad psychological truth rather than an action happening right now, verir is much more natural than veriyor.

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