Question 1

Why is it gelmiş mi instead of geldi mi?

Accepted Answer

The -miş tense (reported past) shows the speaker is asking about an event they didn't witness themselves. They are essentially asking, "Have you heard if his wife came?" or "Is it true she came?". If they used geldi mi, they would be asking a direct factual question about a past event.

Question 2

How do we get "his wife" when there is no word for "his" in the sentence?

Accepted Answer

The suffix -sı in karısı is the third-person possessive suffix. It attaches to the root word karı (wife) to mean "his wife". You could say onun karısı for emphasis, but Turkish usually drops the pronoun onun because the -sı suffix already does the job.

Question 3

Why is da written as a separate word here?

Accepted Answer

When da (or de) means "too" or "also", it is a conjunction and is always written as a separate word. This is different from the locative suffix -da (meaning "in" or "on"), which attaches directly to the word. Here, it follows karısı to mean "his wife too".

Question 4

Why does toplantı change to toplantıya?

Accepted Answer

The verb gelmek (to come) describes movement toward a destination, so that destination needs the dative suffix (meaning to/towards). Since toplantı (meeting) ends in a vowel, we add the buffer letter -y- before the suffix -a, giving us toplantıya (to the meeting).

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