Betonarme kolonlar binanın dayanıklılığını artırıyor.

Reinforced concrete columns increase the building’s durability.

Breakdown of Betonarme kolonlar binanın dayanıklılığını artırıyor.

• bina: the building
• artırmak: to increase
• dayanıklılık: the durability
• betonarme: reinforced concrete
• kolon: the column

Questions & Answers about Betonarme kolonlar binanın dayanıklılığını artırıyor.

What does betonarme mean, and why is it written as one word?

betonarme is a compound adjective borrowed from French béton armé, meaning “reinforced concrete.” In Turkish it’s treated as a single adjective and is always spelled as one word. As with all Turkish adjectives, it does not change form for number or case.

Why doesn’t betonarme take a plural or case suffix, whereas kolon becomes kolonlar?

• In Turkish, adjectives never agree with nouns in number or case.
• The noun carries those markers.
  • kolon
  • -lar (plural) = kolonlar
    • betonarme remains unchanged before kolonlar.

What is the word order in this sentence, and how do I identify the subject, object, and verb?

Turkish typically follows Subject–Object–Verb (SOV).

• Subject (S): Betonarme kolonlar (“Reinforced concrete columns”)
• Object (O): binanın dayanıklılığını (“the building’s durability”)
• Verb (V): artırıyor (“is increasing”)

Why is bina in the genitive case (as binanın)?

In Turkish possession:

1. The possessor noun takes the genitive suffix. Here bina (“building”) + -ın = binanın (“of the building”).
2. The possessed noun then takes a possessive suffix to agree with that possessor.

Why does dayanıklılık have two suffixes in dayanıklılığını?

1. -ı (3rd-person singular possessive) turns dayanıklılık (“durability”) into dayanıklılığı (“its durability”).
2. -ı (accusative case) marks it as a definite direct object. Because dayanıklılığı ends in a vowel, a buffer consonant n is inserted:
   dayanıklılığı + n + ı → dayanıklılığını.

How is the noun dayanıklılık formed?

It comes from the adjective dayanıklı (“resistant, durable”) plus the abstract-noun suffix -lık, which creates dayanıklılık (“durability”).

What does artırıyor mean, and how is its form built?

• artırmak = “to increase, to strengthen”
• Present-continuous suffix: -ıyor (“is –ing”)
  Put together: artır
  • ıyor = artırıyor (“it is increasing”).