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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.
- -lar (plural) = 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:
- The possessor noun takes the genitive suffix. Here bina (“building”) + -ın = binanın (“of the building”).
- The possessed noun then takes a possessive suffix to agree with that possessor.
Why does dayanıklılık have two suffixes in dayanıklılığını?
- -ı (3rd-person singular possessive) turns dayanıklılık (“durability”) into dayanıklılığı (“its durability”).
- -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”).
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