Word
Piyasa araştırması yapmak gerekiyor.
Meaning
It is necessary to do market research.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Piyasa araştırması yapmak gerekiyor.
yapmak
to do
gerekmek
to be necessary
piyasa araştırması
the market research
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Questions & Answers about Piyasa araştırması yapmak gerekiyor.
What does piyasa mean?
It literally means market, referring to an economic market or marketplace in general.
Why is araştırması ending with -ı? Why not just araştırma?
In Turkish compound nouns, the second noun takes a third-person possessive suffix (-sı/-si/-su/-sü) to show “its X.” Here araştırması = “its research,” so piyasa araştırması = research of market. The full explicit form would be piyasanın araştırması, but in set phrases the genitive on the first noun is dropped.
What role does yapmak play here?
Yapmak is the verb to do. It’s used as a support verb to turn the noun araştırma (“research”) into an action: araştırma yapmak = to do research.
Why is yapmak not conjugated? Why isn’t it something like yapıyorum?
Because it appears in the infinitive form. Expressions of necessity with gerekmek use the bare infinitive + gerekiyor:
… yapmak gerekiyor = “it is necessary to do …”
What is gerekiyor? How does it work in Turkish?