Questions & Answers about Nakliye süreci gecikti.
What do the words nakliye and süreç mean?
Nakliye means “transportation,” “freight” or “shipment”—the act of moving goods.
Süreç means “process.”
Together, nakliye süreci means “the shipping (transportation) process.”
Why is it süreci and not simply süreç in nakliye süreci?
Is nakliye süreci the direct object of the verb gecikmek? Why does it look like it has an accusative -i?
What is the breakdown of the verb gecikti in terms of root and suffix?
Root: gecik- (delay)
Past-tense marker: -ti
Combined: gecik + -ti = gecikti (“(it) was delayed”).
How would you say “We delayed the shipping process” in Turkish?
Use the transitive (causative) form geciktirmek:
Nakliye sürecini geciktirdik.
Here sürecini carries both the possessive suffix -i and the accusative marker -ni (buffer n) to show it’s the object.
Can you drop süreci and just say Nakliye gecikti? Does that change the meaning?
What’s the difference between gecikmek and geciktirmek?
Gecikmek is intransitive: “to be delayed” (no object).
Geciktirmek is transitive (causative): “to delay something” (takes an object).
Where is the stress in nakliye süreci gecikti?
Turkish generally stresses the last syllable of each word, so:
nakliYE süreCİ gecikTİ.
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