Hobi olarak fotoğraf çekmekten zevk alıyorum.

to take

Breakdown of Hobi olarak fotoğraf çekmekten zevk alıyorum.

• olarak: as
• fotoğraf: the photograph
• -ten: from

Questions & Answers about Hobi olarak fotoğraf çekmekten zevk alıyorum.

What does Hobi olarak mean, and why do we need olarak here instead of just saying Hobi?

Hobi olarak literally means “as a hobby.” The word olarak turns hobi (hobby) into an adverbial phrase indicating the role or capacity in which you do something. Without olarak, you’d need a different construction (for example Hobim fotoğraf çekmek “My hobby is taking photos”). To say “I enjoy taking photos as a hobby,” you normally use hobi olarak.

Why is fotoğraf çekmek changed to fotoğraf çekmekten in this sentence?

The verb phrase çekmek (“to take”) is nominalized by the infinitive suffix -mek, giving çekmek = “taking.” To link it to zevk almak (“to enjoy”), Turkish requires the ablative case -ten/-dan, which attaches to that nominalized form. So you get çekmek + ten = çekmekten, literally “from taking” or “out of taking.”

Why isn’t there an accusative suffix on fotoğraf (i.e. why not fotoğrafı çekmekten zevk alıyorum)?

When you use the infinitive/nominalized verb çekmek as a whole phrase, its internal object (fotoğraf) usually stays in the unmarked (nominative) form. The infinitive phrase fotoğraf çekmek is treated as a single unit, and you apply the case ending to çekmek, not to fotoğraf. If you were using a finite verb, you’d say fotoğrafı çekiyorum (“I am taking the photo”) with the accusative -ı.