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Correct sentence structure
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27 Jul 2006 Thu 12:41 pm |
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Quoting erdinc: Quoting bod: Am I right in thinking that without exception all correctly formed Türkçe sentences must end with either a verb or an interrogative particle associated with the verb? |
This is not quite right. It is possible to build sentences without putting the verb to the end. It is not that the verb must go to the end. It can be somewhere else. But, yes the regular structure is like this:
Subject + Object + Predicate.
This is the basic structure. The predicate can be a verb or a noun or adjective. Unlike English we don't have the verb "to be" but we do have noun sentences (isim cümlesi).
In fact, in Turkish sentences are devided into two groups according their predicate: Verb sentences and noun sentences. |
Going back to a sentence earlier in this thread:
Bugün çalışmak lazım
What is the predictate - is it lazım or is it çalışmak lazım?
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27 Jul 2006 Thu 05:30 pm |
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Quoting bod: Going back to a sentence earlier in this thread:
Bugün çalışmak lazım
What is the predictate - is it lazım or is it çalışmak lazım? |
Greetings Bod,
This is a noun sentence. The predicate in noun sentences is either a noun or from the noun familiy (adjective, pronoun, adverb, particle, conjunction, verbal noun, verbal adjective).
In this sentence the predicate is "lazım". We need to ask questions to the predicate to find the subject.
In verb sentences we ask the questions "who does?" or "what does?" to the predicate to find the subject.
Since this is a noun sentence we ask different questions.
In noun sentences we ask the questions "who is?" or "what is?".
Who is needed? What is needed?
-Çalışmak.
"Çalışmak" is the subject.
"Bugün" is complement.
So, yes, this time the order is different than usual:
Complement + Subject + Predicate
"Özne isim cümlelerinde oluşa konu olan, fiil cümlelerinde yapan, eden veya yaptıran unsurdur."
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