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about accusative case
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26 May 2007 Sat 11:16 am |
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Oğlan ekmeği yiyor.
Oğlan biraz ekmek yedi.
My question is, why in the second sentence the accusative case marker is not added to "ekmek"? Thx alot!!!!!!!!!!!!
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26 May 2007 Sat 11:23 am |
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also why isn't the future tense of "yemek" "yeyecek" but "yiyecek"?
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26 May 2007 Sat 12:34 pm |
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Quoting iHeartCrouchy: also why isn't the future tense of "yemek" "yeyecek" but "yiyecek"? |
Yemek (and also demek) are verbs that look like exceptions but they aren't.
They follow the same rules as other verbs of which the stem ends in a vowel:
Eg: anlamak => anl(a) + ı + verb ending => anlıyor (present continuous tense)
The vowel of the verb stem in yemek is dropped and replaced by -i-.
In the present continuous it would be y(e) + i + yor => yiyor (he is eating)
Future tense is y(e) + i + y (buffer) + ecek => yiyecek
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26 May 2007 Sat 12:37 pm |
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Quoting iHeartCrouchy: Oğlan ekmeği yiyor.
Oğlan biraz ekmek yedi.
My question is, why in the second sentence the accusative case marker is not added to "ekmek"? Thx alot!!!!!!!!!!!! |
In the first sentence, the kid is eating a "specific" piece of bread, the bread that his mum gave him for example.
In the second sentence, the bread is not really defined, so no accusative.
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26 May 2007 Sat 05:50 pm |
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A definitive one will be;
Oğlan ekmeğin birazını yedi.
The boy ate some pieces of the bread.
others are;
The boy ate some (pieces of) bread. -> Oğlan biraz ekmek yedi.
The boy ate the bread. -> Oğlan ekmeği yedi.
The boy ate a bread. -> Oğlan bir ekmek yedi.
The boy ate bread. -> Oğlan ekmek yedi. (don't know if this is correct in English)
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27 May 2007 Sun 07:00 am |
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Thank you so much Elisa and SunFlowerSeeds  ))))
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