Rapordaki hatalar gözden kaçtı.

The mistakes in the report went unnoticed.

Breakdown of Rapordaki hatalar gözden kaçtı.

• rapor: the report
• hata: the mistake
• -da: in
• -ki: that

Questions & Answers about Rapordaki hatalar gözden kaçtı.

What does the suffix -daki in rapordaki indicate?

The suffix -daki is actually two parts: the locative -da (“in/at”) plus the relativizer -ki. Together they turn rapor (“report”) into an adjective meaning “that which is in the report.” So rapordaki hatalar = “the errors in the report.”

Why isn’t there a separate possessive ending on hatalar?

Because rapordaki already modifies hatalar and shows their location. You don’t need a genitive (“of the report”) plus possessive on hatalar — the locative + -ki does that job. Hence rapordaki hatalar, not rapordaki hataların or similar.

Could I say raporun hataları gözden kaçtı instead? What’s the difference?

Yes, raporun hataları uses the genitive–possessive construction (“the report’s errors”). Rapordaki hatalar uses locative + -ki to mean “the errors that are in the report.” Both convey roughly the same idea, but rapordaki hatalar explicitly highlights “inside the report.”

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