Çalışma kültürü bana uygun değil.

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Breakdown of Çalışma kültürü bana uygun değil.

• uygun: suitable
• ben: me
• çalışma kültürü: workplace culture

Questions & Answers about Çalışma kültürü bana uygun değil.

Why is it çalışma kültürü and not çalışmak kültürü?

Because çalışma here is a noun meaning work / working, formed from the verb çalışmak (to work).

In Turkish, -ma / -me can turn a verb into a verbal noun:

• çalışmak = to work
• çalışma = working, work

So çalışma kültürü means work culture or working culture. Using çalışmak kültürü would sound wrong here, because çalışmak is the infinitive form (to work), not the noun form needed in this phrase.

Why does kültür become kültürü?

This is because Turkish often uses a noun compound structure.

In çalışma kültürü:

• çalışma = work
• kültürü = its culture / culture of

The -ü on kültür is the third-person possessive ending, which commonly appears in compounds like this.

So literally, the structure is something like:

• çalışma kültürü = the culture of work / work culture

This is very common in Turkish:

• Türk kahvesi = Turkish coffee
• okul kapısı = school gate
• iş hayatı = work life

Even though English usually just stacks nouns, Turkish often marks the second noun this way.