Breakdown of Hiç kimseden yardım almadan kendi arabamın bujilerini değiştiriyorum.
araba
car
hiç
at all / any
almak
to take, to buy
kendi
self
Questions & Answers about Hiç kimseden yardım almadan kendi arabamın bujilerini değiştiriyorum.
Why use kendi here instead of benim to say "my car's"?
In this lesson, we see kendi used as an emphatic possessive modifier. While benim arabamın just means "my car's", kendi arabamın means "my own car's". The structure is kendi + noun + possessive suffix (-m). It emphasizes that you are doing the work on your own vehicle rather than someone else's.
Doesn't hiç kimse (nobody/anybody) usually require a negative verb at the end of the sentence?
Yes, but here the negative requirement is satisfied by the -madan (without) suffix on almadan. Because "without getting help" is logically negative, it pairs perfectly with hiç kimseden (from anyone). The main verb değiştiriyorum remains positive because you are actually changing the spark plugs!
Is almadan a form of the verbal noun alma plus the ablative -dan?
It looks exactly like that, but here it is actually the dedicated suffix -madan / -meden, which means "without doing" the action. yardım almadan translates to "without getting help". If it were the verbal noun + ablative, it would mean "from the getting," which does not fit the context.
Why are there two -i suffixes on bujilerini?