Kiralama fiyatı yüksek.

to be

Breakdown of Kiralama fiyatı yüksek.

• fiyat: the price
• yüksek: high
• kiralama: rental

Questions & Answers about Kiralama fiyatı yüksek.

What does kiralama mean, and how does it differ from kiralamak?

Kiralamak is the infinitive verb ‘to rent.’ When you attach the nominalizer -ma/-me to a verb root, you turn it into a noun (a verbal noun). Here, kirala- + -ma = kiralama, meaning ‘the act of renting’ or simply ‘rental.’ In kiralama fiyatı, kiralama functions like the English adjective ‘rental.’

Why does fiyatı end with -ı? Is that the accusative case?

No. In fiyatı, the suffix -ı is the third-person singular possessive marker, not the accusative. It shows that the price belongs to the rental. So kiralama fiyatı literally means ‘the price of the rental,’ with fiyat (‘price’) taking -ı to become ‘its price.’

Why isn’t there a separate word for ‘of’ between ‘rental’ and ‘price’?

Turkish expresses possession through suffixes rather than a separate preposition like ‘of.’ The possessor can either stand bare or take a genitive suffix, and the possessed noun takes a possessive suffix. In kiralama fiyatı, the first noun (kiralama) appears bare, and the second noun (fiyat) takes the possessive -ı.

Could you also say kiralamanın fiyatı yüksek? Are they the same?