Propaganda kampanyası büyüdükçe etkisi artıyor.

As the propaganda campaign grows, its effect increases.

Breakdown of Propaganda kampanyası büyüdükçe etkisi artıyor.

• artmak: to increase
• büyümek: to grow
• etki: the effect
• -si: its
• propaganda kampanyası: the propaganda campaign
• -dükçe: when

Questions & Answers about Propaganda kampanyası büyüdükçe etkisi artıyor.

How is büyüdükçe formed and what does it mean?

• Verb root büyü- (to grow)
• Suffix -dükçe, a variant of -(y)dikçe
  • Expresses as… happens, … happens or the more…, the more…
  Result: büyü + dükçe → büyüdükçe = as it grows / the more it grows

Why is büyüdükçe written with -dükçe and not -dikçe or -dıkça?

Vowel harmony in -(y)dikçe has four variants:

• -dıkça (after a, ı)
• -dikçe (after e, i)
• -dukça (after o, u)
• -dükçe (after ö, ü)
  “büyü” contains ü, so we use -dükçe, giving büyüdükçe.

How do you express the more X, the more Y in Turkish?

Use -(y)dikçe on the first verb, then the main clause normally.
Structure:
• Verb1 + -(y)dikçe → the more X
• Main clause → the more Y
Example: Propaganda kampanyası büyüdükçe etkisi artıyor = The more the propaganda campaign grows, the more its effect increases.

Why isn’t propaganda in the genitive case (i.e. why not propagandanın kampanyası)?

propaganda kampanyası is a noun-noun compound (“propaganda campaign”). In such compounds:

• 1st noun remains bare
• 2nd noun takes 3rd-person possessive (-sı)
  Using propagandanın kampanyası would literally mean the campaign of propaganda rather than the set term propaganda campaign.

Why does kampanyası have -yası instead of just -sı?

• -sı is the 3rd-person singular possessive suffix (its).
• When a word ends in a vowel, Turkish inserts a buffer consonant y before a vowel-initial suffix.
  Therefore: kampanya
  • y
    • sı → kampanyası.

What does etkisi mean, and why is it also possessive?

• etki = effect, impact
• -si marks 3rd-person singular possession (its)
  So etkisi = its effect, referring back to propaganda kampanyası.

Why are there no articles like a or the in propaganda kampanyası?

Turkish doesn’t have articles like English.

• Use bir for “a/an” (e.g., bir propaganda kampanyası = a propaganda campaign)
• Definite meaning is inferred from context.
  In many descriptions or generic statements, bir is omitted.

Why is the verb artıyor in the present continuous rather than a simple present?

Turkish uses the present continuous suffix -iyor for:

• Ongoing actions (is doing)
• General truths or tendencies
  Hence artıyor = is increasing (expressing a continuing trend).

Could you use büyüdüğünde instead of büyüdükçe? What’s the difference?

• -düğünde = when/whenever X happens (time clause)
• -dikçe = the more X, the more Y (proportional relationship)
  So:
  • büyüdüğünde etkisi artıyor = Whenever it grows, its effect increases
  • büyüdükçe etkisi artıyor = The more it grows, the more its effect increases

Where does the stress fall in Propaganda kampanyası büyüdükçe etkisi artıyor?

Most Turkish words have final-syllable stress. Thus you would emphasize the last syllable of each word:

• propaGANDA
• kampanyaSÁ
• büyüdükÇE
• etkiSÍ
• artıYÓR