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Questions & Answers about Rezidansta oturduğumuz süre boyunca spor salonuna ve yüzme havuzuna gitmek için GPS uygulaması kullandım.
What does the suffix -duğumuz in oturduğumuz do?
The string oturduğumuz comes from the root otur- (“to live/sit”) plus three pieces:
- -du (past tense marker)
- -ğ (buffer + participle/relative-clause marker)
- -umuz (1st-person-plural suffix)
Together they form a relative clause meaning “which we lived.” So oturduğumuz süre = “the period which we lived (there).”
What does süre boyunca mean, and why not süre içinde?
boyunca means “throughout” or “during the entire span.”
- süre boyunca = “throughout the time/period”
- süre içinde can also mean “within the period,” but boyunca emphasizes that something happened over the whole duration rather than at some point inside it.
Why are spor salonuna and yüzme havuzuna in the dative case (-a)?
In Turkish, motion verbs like gitmek (“to go”) require the destination to be in the dative case.
- spor salonu (gym) → spor salonuna (“to the gym”)
- yüzme havuzu (swimming pool) → yüzme havuzuna (“to the swimming pool”)
What role does gitmek için play in the sentence?
-mek için is the infinitive (gitmek = “to go”) plus the purpose particle için (“in order to”).
So spor salonuna … gitmek için means “in order to go to the gym ….” It introduces the purpose of using the GPS app.
Why doesn’t GPS uygulaması have an accusative suffix like -ı?
Turkish only uses the accusative case on definite direct objects. Here GPS uygulaması is indefinite (just “a GPS app”), so it stays in the nominative. If you meant “the GPS app” specifically, you’d say GPS uygulamasını kullandım.
Why is there a possessive suffix on uygulama in GPS uygulaması?
In Turkish genitive compounds, the possessor comes first without a suffix, and the possessed noun takes a 3rd-person-singular possessive.
- GPS (no suffix) = possessor
- uygulama
- -sı = its application
So GPS uygulaması literally is “the application of GPS,” i.e. “GPS application.”
- -sı = its application