Breakdown of Propaganda kampanyasında kullanılan bakır kablolar ve ses sistemi düzenli olarak test edildi.
ve
and
kullanmak
to use
düzenli olarak
regularly
-nda
in
Questions & Answers about Propaganda kampanyasında kullanılan bakır kablolar ve ses sistemi düzenli olarak test edildi.
What do the parts of kampanyasında mean and how do they work together?
kampanyasında breaks down as:
- kampanya = “campaign”
- -sı = 3rd-person possessive suffix (“its/the”)
- -nda = locative case suffix (“in”)
So kampanyasında literally means “in its campaign”, here understood as “in the propaganda campaign.”
How does kullanılan function in this sentence?
kullanılan is the passive past participle of kullanmak (“to use”). As a modifier, it describes the noun that follows.
So “kampanyasında kullanılan bakır kablolar” means “the copper cables that are/ were used in the campaign.”
Does kullanılan mean the cables themselves are doing the using?
No. In Turkish, the -ılan (or -ülen/–nılan etc.) suffix marks the passive participle. It indicates the cables are being used by someone, not that they are using something.
Why don’t bakır kablolar have an accusative suffix (–ı/–i) even though they’re being tested?
In a passive construction, the original object becomes the subject of the passive verb and stays in the nominative case (no accusative suffix). Thus bakır kablolar and ses sistemi appear without –ı.