Breakdown of Rezervasyonumu onayladıktan sonra oteldeki plaja ulaşmanın ne kadar kolay olduğunu fark ettim.
olmak
to be
benim
my
kolay
easy
sonra
after
ulaşmak
to reach
-de
in
-ya
to
rezervasyon
the reservation
otel
the hotel
plaj
the beach
onaylamak
to confirm
ne kadar
how
fark etmek
to realize
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Questions & Answers about Rezervasyonumu onayladıktan sonra oteldeki plaja ulaşmanın ne kadar kolay olduğunu fark ettim.
What does -dıktan sonra mean and how is it formed?
-dıktan sonra is an adverbial conjunction meaning “after (doing something).” You form it by:
- Taking the verb stem (e.g. onayla-, “to confirm”)
- Adding the past-tense marker -dı/-di/-du/-dü → onayladı
- Adding the participial suffix -ktan/-kten → onayladıktan
- Finally adding sonra → onayladıktan sonra
Altogether it corresponds to “after confirming.”
Why is Rezervasyonumu in the accusative case?
In Turkish, definite or specific direct objects take the accusative suffix -ı/-i/-u/-ü. Since Rezervasyonum (“my reservation”) is a specific thing you confirmed, it becomes Rezervasyonumu with -u to mark it as the object of onaylamak (“to confirm”).
What does oteldeki mean in oteldeki plaja and how is it built?
oteldeki breaks down as:
- otel (“hotel”)
- -de (locative case, “at/in”)
- -ki (adjectival suffix, “that is located there”)
So oteldeki literally means “the [one] at the hotel,” modifying plaj to give “the beach at the hotel.”
Why is plaj in the dative case (plaja)?
The verb ulaşmak (“to reach/arrive”) requires its goal or destination to be in the dative (-a/-e) case. Hence plaj becomes plaja to indicate “to the beach.”
Why is ulaşmanın used instead of ulaşmak?
Because the act of “reaching the beach” needs to function as a noun (the thing you noticed). You use the gerundial suffix -ma to nominalize ulaşmak → ulaşma (“reaching”), then add the 3rd-person singular genitive -nın so you can attach the following clause: ulaşma + -nın = ulaşmanın (“of reaching”).
What is ne kadar kolay olduğunu doing, and why do we need olduğunu?
ne kadar kolay means “how easy.” To make it into a subordinate noun clause (the object of fark etmek, “to notice”), Turkish uses:
- the copula olmak (“to be”)
- the participial/nominalizer suffix -duğu
- the 3rd-person possessive marker -su
- object suffix -nu (fused)
Resulting in olduğunu, so ne kadar kolay olduğunu = “how easy it was.” This whole clause is what you “noticed.”
- object suffix -nu (fused)
Why is fark ettim at the end of the sentence?
Turkish follows Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. The implied subject “I,” then the object clause (Rezervasyonumu onayladıktan sonra oteldeki plaja ulaşmanın ne kadar kolay olduğunu), and finally the verb fark ettim (“I noticed”).