Needing help with grammar
Okay, let's do a word by word translation of the sentence:
Küçük - Little
beyaz - white
ayı - bear
, ne - neither
ot - gras
, ne - nor
de - too
çiçek - flowers
biten - growing This is my first question: is this from bitmek? And what Form?
, ağaçsız - tree-less
, yıl - year
boyu - long
karla - right, kar=snow, but what is the - la about?
kaplı - covered
bir - a
ülkede - land +locative-ending
yaşıyordu - lived (past progressive)
Could somebody please help me with my two questions? And did I get the rest right? Thanks!
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Answers · 6
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Yes! The verb there is "bitmek" but it has a completely different meaning than the "bitmek" which means "to finish". Here "bitmek" is used as an equivalent of the English word "to grow". The other word for grow "büyümek" could have been used here as well (...ne ot, ne de çiçek büyüyen...). Here "bitmek" was made into an adjective------ biten çiçek lit. growing flower.
"Karla" is a shorter version of saying "kar ile", which means "with snow". You can either use "ile" separately or add it to the end of the word before it. Anne ile İstanbul'a gittik and Annemle İstanbul'a gittik are both correct.
You got all the others right!
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"Biten"=Noun
"Bitmek"=Verb
"Kar"=Noun
"Karla"=Adjective
"-la" make adjective the word.
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