Küçük kaplumbağa çok yavaş yürüdüğü için onu kolayca yakaladık.
Because the little turtle walked very slowly, we caught it easily.
Pronunciation: Kaplumbağa: kah-ploom-BAH-ah (final ğa is a soft, lengthening sound; not a hard ‘g’)
Grammar: ‘Kaplumbağa’ means ‘turtle/tortoise’. The -dığı için on ‘yürüdüğü’ (the fact that it walked) plus ‘için’ forms a ‘because’ clause. Object pronoun ‘onu’ (it/him/her) is required before ‘yakaladık’ (we caught).
