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In English when we make sentences with never or ever, it automatically refers to the subject's total experience. Like when we say "John never kissed." It automatically means that John has never touched lips with another person in his entire life. But in Turkish, when we say "John hiç öpüşmedi.", it sounds as if the sentence did not end yet, as if it would continue with something like "at the party" or "on that boat-trip". So we put "hayatında" (in his/her life) to emphasize this point. Additionally, depending on the subject, it would conjugate as "hayatımda, hayatında, hayatında, hayatımızda, hayatınızda, hayatlarında".Breakdown of Ben biliyorum ki Kamil hayatında hiç sevişmedi.
ben
I
bilmek
to knowSOMETHING
hiç
any, at all, ever, never
hayat
life
sevişmek
to make love
Fun fact: sevişmek used to mean to love each other. When someone said "Ayşe'yle sevişiriz." it used to mean that the speaker and Ayşe love each other. But now it means the speaker and Ayşe have sex on occasion.
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“How does vowel harmony work in Turkish?”
Turkish uses vowel harmony, meaning the vowels in suffixes change to match the last vowel of the word. Turkish vowels are divided into front (e, i, ö, ü) and back (a, ı, o, u) groups. Suffixes will use front or back vowels to harmonize with the root word.
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