Questions & Answers about Kırık cam tehlikeli.
How would I use this lesson's "mI" emphasis structure to say the glass is "completely shattered"?
You would apply the Adjective + mI + Adjective structure to kırık (broken). By saying kırık mı kırık cam, you emphasize that the glass is heavily or completely broken.
How would I emphasize that the broken glass is extremely dangerous using the same pattern?
You can apply the pattern to the predicate adjective at the end of the sentence: Kırık cam tehlikeli mi tehlikeli. Notice that the question particle becomes mi to follow 4-way vowel harmony with the final vowel in tehlikeli.
Why isn't it tehlikelidir? Doesn't the sentence need "-dir" to mean "is"?
In everyday spoken Turkish, the "is" for third-person subjects is often just implied. Adding -dir to make it tehlikelidir is grammatically correct, but it makes the sentence sound more like a formal written warning, an encyclopedic fact, or a definitive objective statement rather than a casual observation.
I know kırmak means "to break". Is kırık just a tense of that verb?
Kırık is a permanent adjective derived from the verb kırmak. The suffix -(I)k is frequently added to verb roots to create adjectives that describe the resulting state of an action. You have likely seen this same pattern in words like açık (open, from açmak) or bozuk (broken/spoiled, from bozmak).
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