"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.
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Yes it does, if it wasn´t referring to a specific one it would say "a newspaper".
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No, "read the newspaper", "play the piano", these are examples of phrases where the word "the" does not necessarily mean a definite individual [newspaper, piano]. "I play the piano" does not mean "I play this one specific piano that has previously been specified in this conversation". "I read the newspaper" does not mean "I read this one specific newspaper that has previously been specified". It means generic piano, generic newspaper.
