Seni Ilk Gördüğüm Günü Hatırladım Kandırdı Beni Tek Bir Bakışın

-e Adverbial Ending

In Lesson 15, we learned about all the ways to express how much you would not do something. In one final lesson that highlights the function of the aorist -ir ending, we explore how to express how much ever so willing we are to do anything.

The singer of this lesson's song is Jehan Barbur. She was born into an Arab Christian family from İskenderun in the southernmost province of Turkey of Hatay. She studied American culture and literature at Bilkent University in Ankara before beginning her career as a performer.

In the first line of the song, "seve seve ölürüm senin için", Jehan uses the two grammatical features that we seek to highlight in this lesson. The first is the now-familiar aorist tense in the verb "ölürüm" or "I would die". Note that while Lesson 14 highlighted the aorist's ability to express repetitive actions such as the movement of boats in Istanbul, here it is certainly not a repeated action but a possible action that "would" occur under certain circumstances.

Moreover, the extent to which Jehan would be willing to die is emphasized using the adverb "seve seve". It is formed from the verb "sevmek" meaning "to love" or "to like". Here we "seve seve" as an adverb meaning "loving". While the -erek form in Lesson 13 came with the meaning "while loving" or "while being in love", "seve seve" brings a different meaning to the verb "sevmek". The action is done lovingly or while "liking it", and thus, "seve seve" becomes "gladly", "readily", or "willingly".