Learn Hardcore Turkish: Aloe vera yetiştirmek su tutma özelliği nedeniyle kolaydır. - Growing aloe vera is easy because of its water‐retention quality.

Aloe vera yetiştirmek is the infinitive (gerund) form of the verb phrase “to grow aloe vera.” In Turkish, when you want to express “Doing X is easy/important/etc.,” you use the infinitive …mek/…mak as a noun. Here the whole phrase Aloe vera yetiştirmek functions as the subject: “To grow aloe vera is easy.”

Why doesn’t Aloe vera take the accusative suffix (like Aloe vera’yı) after yetiştirmek?

When you nominalize a verb with -mek/-mak, its internal objects often stay in the bare form without accusative marking. So Aloe vera yetiştirmek means “to grow aloe vera,” and you normally omit -yı/-yi on Aloe vera in such infinitive constructions.

How is su tutma formed, and what does it mean?

Breakdown of su tutma:

Su = “water”
Tut = verb root “to hold”
-ma = nominalizer that turns tut into a noun (“holding”)
So su tutma literally means “water-holding,” i.e. “water retention.”

What does su tutma özelliği nedeniyle mean, and how is it built?