Word
Ekonomi dersinde arz ve talep arasındaki dengeyi öğrendim.
Meaning
(I learned about the balance between supply and demand in my economics class.)
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Ekonomi dersinde arz ve talep arasındaki dengeyi öğrendim.
ve
and
öğrenmek
to learn
arasında
between
-de
in
Questions & Answers about Ekonomi dersinde arz ve talep arasındaki dengeyi öğrendim.
Why is there no genitive marker between ekonomi and dersi? Shouldn’t it be ekonominin dersi?
In Turkish, a foreign noun like ekonomi can directly modify another noun to form a compound without adding -in on the modifier. ekonomi dersi simply means “economics lesson.” Adding -in (→ ekonominin dersi) would literally be “the lesson of the economy,” which isn’t the normal way to say “economics class.”
Why is it dersinde rather than derste for “in class”?
dersinde is built from dersi (“the lesson”) + locative -nde (“in”). The -i in dersi is the 3rd person possessive (because ekonomi “owns” the lesson). Since dersi ends in a vowel, Turkish inserts a buffer -n before -de, giving dersi + n + de = dersinde. By contrast, derste (→ ders + -te) means “in class” in general, without specifying which lesson.
What does the suffix -ki do in arasındaki, and why is it used?
The suffix -ki turns arasında (“between”) into a relative adjective meaning the one that is between. So arz ve talep arasındaki denge literally means the balance that is between supply and demand.