Learn Turkish: Sevginiz daim ola, hiç üzülmeyesiniz. - May your love be constant, and may you never be sad.

Both mean 'may it be,' but they use different grammar. olsun is the 3rd person imperative and is very common in daily speech. ola uses the 3rd person optative suffix -a taught in this lesson. Using the optative for the 2nd and 3rd person sounds poetic, traditional, or formal today, so you will mostly see it in established blessings like daim ola (may it be constant) or kolay gele (may it come easily).

How do the suffixes in üzülmeyesiniz build the meaning 'may you not be sad'?

The verb root is üzül- (to be sad). First we add the negative suffix -me. Then we attach the optative 2nd person plural ending taught in this lesson: -yesiniz (made of the buffer -y-, the optative -e, and the personal ending -siniz). This specific structure creates the formal or plural wish 'may you not be sad.'

Is the word daim the same as daima?

They are closely related but functionally different. daima is an adverb meaning 'always.' daim is an adjective meaning 'constant,' 'permanent,' or 'enduring.' In this sentence, it acts as the adjective describing sevginiz (your love).

Why use hiç instead of asla for 'never'?