Yüklenicinin gecikmesi durumunda gecikme cezası uygulanacak.

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Breakdown of Yüklenicinin gecikmesi durumunda gecikme cezası uygulanacak.

• yüklenici: a contractor
• gecikme cezası: a delay penalty
• -ması durumunda: in the event of someone doing something (formal)

Questions & Answers about Yüklenicinin gecikmesi durumunda gecikme cezası uygulanacak.

Why is yüklenicinin gecikmesi built this way instead of using a separate word for if?

This is a very common Turkish structure: a nominalized clause.

• yüklenici = contractor
• yüklenicinin = of the contractor / the contractor’s
• gecikme = delay
• gecikmesi = his/its delay or the act of delaying

So yüklenicinin gecikmesi literally means the contractor’s delay.

Turkish often expresses ideas like if the contractor delays by turning the verb idea into a noun-like phrase first, then adding another word such as durumunda. So instead of a separate finite clause, Turkish uses a structure that is closer to:

in the situation of the contractor’s delay

That is why the sentence sounds more formal and compact than a direct if-clause.

What does the ending -nin in yüklenicinin do?