"The majority reads the newspaper."
Translation:Çoğunluk gazeteyi okur.
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Is the word 'çoğunluk' related to the word 'çok'? It looks that way. But how, what's the '-un-' doing there?
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Yeah, çok means 'very,' çoğu is a noun meaning "most." The -n- puts çoğun in the genitive case, and the -luk is 'with' but here is sort of like the -ity we add in English: we are going from "the most (major part) " --> the majority
In Turkish, just as in English, "the majority" is a singular concept. It is a little more fluid in English (you can say "the majority read..."), but not in Turkish :)
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how come it's not just "cogunluk gazete okur"? Does it mean a specific newspaper?
Yep, it is referring to a specific one :)
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The english sentence doesn't usually mean a specific newspaper, so maybe multiple translations into turkish should be accepted.
