Breakdown of Öğrencinin potansiyeli yüksek.
Questions & Answers about Öğrencinin potansiyeli yüksek.
What does the suffix -nin in Öğrencinin indicate?
Why is the genitive suffix on Öğrencinin -nin and not -ın, -un, or -ün?
Why does potansiyel take the suffix -i in potansiyeli?
When a noun is possessed, the possessed noun must carry a 3rd-person singular possessive suffix.
• potansiyel + -i → potansiyeli = “his/her/its potential.”
Is the -i on potansiyeli the accusative case?
Why isn’t there a verb “to be” (is) in this sentence?
Turkish uses a zero copula in the simple present: you state Subject + Predicate directly.
If you want a more formal or emphatic style, you can add -dir to the adjective:
• Öğrencinin potansiyeli yüksektir.
Why does the adjective yüksek come after the noun rather than before it like in English (“high potential”)?
Here yüksek is a predicate adjective, so it follows the subject noun phrase.
If you want an attributive adjective (“high potential”) you say yüksek potansiyel, but then you need a different structure to mean “has”:
• Öğrencinin yüksek potansiyeli var.
How would you say “A student’s potential is high” (indefinite “a student”)?
Add bir to the possessor for indefiniteness:
• Bir öğrencinin potansiyeli yüksek.
How do you express “The student has high potential” instead of “The student’s potential is high”?
Use the verb var (“there is/has”) with an attributive adjective before the noun:
• Öğrencinin yüksek potansiyeli var.
Can you drop the genitive and possessive suffixes and say Öğrenci potansiyeli yüksek?
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