Word
Saklambaç oynayan çocukların neşesi her yeri sarıyordu.
Meaning
The joy of children playing hide-and-seek was spreading everywhere.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Saklambaç oynayan çocukların neşesi her yeri sarıyordu.
her
every
çocuk
the child
yer
the place
saklambaç oynamak
to play hide-and-seek
Questions & Answers about Saklambaç oynayan çocukların neşesi her yeri sarıyordu.
What does the suffix -yan do in saklambaç oynayan?
The suffix -YAN (or -YEN after front vowels) is the present participle suffix. It attaches to the verb stem oyna- (to play) to form oynayan, meaning playing or who is playing. So saklambaç oynayan çocuklar literally means hide-and-seek playing children, i.e. children playing hide-and-seek.
Why does the phrase saklambaç oynayan come before çocukların in the sentence?
Turkish is a head-final language, so modifiers—adjectives, participles or relative clauses—always precede the noun they modify. Here saklambaç oynayan modifies çocukların, so the participial phrase appears before the noun.
What is the function of -ın in çocukların?
The suffix -IN marks the genitive case (possession). In çocukların neşesi, çocukların means of the children (children’s). The possessor noun takes -IN to show that neşe (joy) belongs to çocuklar (children).
Why does neşe take the suffix -si (neşesi)?
When a noun is possessed by a genitive-marked possessor, the possessed noun takes a possessive suffix. Here, (joy) takes the third-person singular possessive suffix , becoming , meaning .