Breakdown of Romanı yüksek sesle okuyarak tonlamayı örnekleyebilirsiniz.
okumak
to read
roman
the novel
-arak
by
yüksek sesle
aloud
Questions & Answers about Romanı yüksek sesle okuyarak tonlamayı örnekleyebilirsiniz.
Why do both romanı and tonlamayı have an accusative ending?
Because both are definite direct objects, but they belong to different verbs.
- romanı goes with okuyarak → reading the novel
- tonlamayı goes with örnekleyebilirsiniz → you can demonstrate the intonation
In Turkish, a specific/definite direct object usually takes the accusative ending:
- roman → romanı
- tonlama → tonlamayı
In tonlamayı, the extra y appears because the noun ends in a vowel; Turkish often inserts y between two vowels.
So the sentence contains:
- one action inside the -arak form: reading the novel
- one main action: demonstrating the intonation
That is why you see two accusative-marked nouns.
What does okuyarak mean, and what does -arak do?