Questions & Answers about Allah işine bereket vere.
Why does this sentence use vere instead of the more common versin?
vere uses the 3rd person singular optative suffix -e. While you will often hear the 3rd person imperative versin used to mean 'let him give' or 'may he give' in modern daily Turkish, the older optative form -a / -e is heavily preserved in traditional blessings, idioms, and curses like this one.
Is the -e in vere related to the ending we use in vereyim (let me give)?
Yes! It is the exact same mood. You are already very used to the 1st person optative forms like vereyim (let me give) and verelim (let us give). The -e- in those words is the same as the -e in vere. While the 1st person forms are used constantly in daily speech, the 2nd and 3rd person forms are mostly found in fixed, formal expressions.
Can you break down the suffixes on işine? Is it 'your' work or 'his' work?
Context tells us it means 'to your work.' Grammatically, işine can be formed two ways: iş (work) + -in (your) + -e (to), OR iş + -i (his/her) + buffer -n- + -e (to). Because this is a standard blessing spoken directly to someone, it is automatically understood as the second-person 'your'.
Why is there no accusative ending on bereket since it is the thing God is giving?
bereket (abundance) is acting as an indefinite direct object. Because the speaker is wishing for abundance in a general, abstract sense rather than referring to a specific, previously mentioned abundance, it does not take the definite accusative suffix -i.
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