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Fotoğrafı telefonumdan arkadaşlarıma gönderebiliyorum.

Fotoğrafı telefonumdan arkadaşlarıma gönderebiliyorum.
I can send the photo from my phone to my friends.

Breakdown of Fotoğrafı telefonumdan arkadaşlarıma gönderebiliyorum.

benim
my
arkadaş
the friend
fotoğraf
the photo
telefon
the phone
-dan
from
-lara
to
gönderebilmek
to be able to send
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Questions & Answers about Fotoğrafı telefonumdan arkadaşlarıma gönderebiliyorum.

Why does fotoğrafı end with -ı?
The suffix -ı is the accusative case marker, used for definite direct objects. Since you’re sending a specific photo, fotoğraf + -ı → fotoğrafı.
What are the parts of telefonumdan, and what do they mean?

telefonumdan breaks down as:

  • telefon “phone”
  • -um 1st-person singular possessive “my”
  • -dan ablative case “from”
    Altogether: “from my phone.”
Why is the ablative suffix -dan and not -den in telefonumdan?
Turkish vowel harmony dictates that -dan/-den follows the last vowel of the stem. Telefonum ends in u (a back vowel), so you use the back-vowel form -dan.
Why is arkadaşlarıma formed that way?

arkadaşlarıma =

  • arkadaş “friend”
  • -lar plural “friends”
  • -ım 1st-person singular possessive “my”
  • -a dative case “to” (back-vowel form because the preceding vowel ı is back)
    So it literally means “to my friends.”
What does gönderebiliyorum mean, and how is it built?

gönderebiliyorum =

  • gönder- “send” (verb root)
  • -ebil- ability/potential “can”
  • -iyor- present continuous aspect “–ing”
  • -um 1st-person singular ending “I”
    Literally: “I am able to send” (i.e. “I can send”).
How is gönderebiliyorum different from gönderiyorum?
  • gönderiyorum = “I am sending” (simple progressive)
  • gönderebiliyorum = “I am able to send” (adds the potential -ebil- “can”)
Why isn’t there a separate word for “I” in the sentence?
Turkish verb endings encode the subject. The -um in gönderebiliyorum already tells you the subject is “I,” so a separate ben (“I”) isn’t needed.
Why does the verb come at the very end?
Turkish follows a Subject–Object–Verb (SOV) order, and all modifiers precede the verb. Even when the subject (ben) is dropped, the verb stays at the end.