Breakdown of Hizmetli, bulaşık makinesinin deterjan bölmesine deterjan koydu.
koymak
to put
-ye
to
hizmetli
the maid
bulaşık makinesi
the dishwasher
Questions & Answers about Hizmetli, bulaşık makinesinin deterjan bölmesine deterjan koydu.
Why are there no articles like a or the in this Turkish sentence?
Turkish has no articles. Definiteness is shown by context or by suffixes:
• deterjan koydu = “(she) put (some) detergent” (indefinite)
• deterjanı koydu = “(she) put the detergent” (definite)
You can also add bir (“a”) for indefiniteness: bir deterjan koydu = “she put a detergent.”
What part of speech is hizmetli, and how is it functioning here?
Hizmetli is a noun meaning “attendant/maid/servant.” Here it’s the subject in the nominative case, so it has no suffix.
Why doesn’t deterjan take the accusative ending -ı in deterjan koydu?
The accusative suffix -(y)ı/-i/-u/-ü marks definite direct objects. Since deterjan is indefinite (some detergent) and a mass noun, it remains unmarked. If you meant “the detergent,” you would say deterjanı koydu.
Why is there a suffix -nin on bulaşık makinesinin?
That -nin is the genitive case marker showing possession: “of the dishwasher.” Turkish uses a genitive-possessive construction:
bulaşık makinesi (“dishwasher”) → add -nin → bulaşık makinesinin (“of the dishwasher”).