Resimler duvara yerleştirilmek üzere hazırlanıyor.

The pictures are being prepared to be placed on the wall.

Breakdown of Resimler duvara yerleştirilmek üzere hazırlanıyor.

• duvar: the wall
• hazırlanmak: to be prepared
• resim: the picture
• -a: to

Questions & Answers about Resimler duvara yerleştirilmek üzere hazırlanıyor.

What does yerleştirilmek üzere mean and how does the construction work?

• yerleştirilmek is the passive infinitive of yerleştirmek (“to place/arrange”).
• üzere after an infinitive expresses purpose (“in order to”).
• So yerleştirilmek üzere literally means “in order to be placed.”

Why is yerleştirilmek used instead of the active yerleştirmek?

• The sentence focuses on the pictures (resimler) as receivers of the action—they are going to be placed, not doing the placing.
• A passive form highlights that the action is done to the subject by an (unstated) agent.

Which case is duvara in, and why is that case used here?

• duvar (“wall”) + -a → duvara is the allative case.
• The allative marks direction or “onto” something. Here it shows that the pictures will end up on the wall.

Why does resimler not have an accusative -i suffix?

• Only definite direct objects take the accusative -i in Turkish.
• resimler is the subject of a passive verb, so it stays in the nominative (no -i).
• Nominative plurals get -ler/-lar (here -ler).

How can you tell that hazırlanıyor is passive, and what tense/aspect is it?