Gölgedeki serinlik sayesinde öğle sıcağını unuttuk.

to forget

Breakdown of Gölgedeki serinlik sayesinde öğle sıcağını unuttuk.

• sayesinde: thanks to
• serinlik: the coolness
• -deki: in

Questions & Answers about Gölgedeki serinlik sayesinde öğle sıcağını unuttuk.

How do we analyze gölgedeki?

It’s built from the noun gölge (‘shade’) + the locative suffix -de (‘in/at’) + the relative participle -ki. Together gölgedeki literally means “that which is in the shade,” here simply “in the shade.”

What does sayesinde mean and how is it formed?

-sayesinde is a single suffix meaning “thanks to” or “due to.” You attach it directly to a noun:
• serinlik (‘coolness’) + sayesinde = serinlik sayesinde (“thanks to the coolness”).

Why use serinlik instead of the adjective serin?

Adjectives can’t take -sayesinde, so you need a noun. Turkish turns “cool” into “coolness” by adding -lik:
serin (‘cool’) → serinlik (‘coolness’).

Why does sıcak turn into sıcağını in öğle sıcağını?

Two suffixes are at work:

1. A 3rd-person possessive -ı (“midday’s heat”) causes the final k → ğ, giving sıcağı.
2. The accusative -(n)ı for a definite object attaches next. Because sıcağı ends in a vowel, a buffer n is inserted before ı, yielding sıcağını.