T or D
In my textbook it says:

Her gece televizyon SEYREDİYOR, uyuyorum.

and

Üç yıldır televizyon SEYRETMİYORUZ.

Why is it D in the first and D in the second sentence?

Question

T or D
In my textbook it says:

Her gece televizyon SEYREDİYOR, uyuyorum.

and

Üç yıldır televizyon SEYRETMİYORUZ.

Why is it D in the first and D in the second sentence?

Answer

It's called "consonant softening" (ünsüz yumuşaması) it's something even Turkish students learn at school! :)

Basically for words ending in "p, ç, t, k" if a vowel follows these letters turn into "b, c, d, ğ"

Since "et-" is the noun, and iyoruz are the suffix combination indicating time and person "t" turns into a "d".

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