Dekorasyonda renk kombinasyonları arasında uyum sağlamak büyük özen gerektirir.

Achieving harmony among color combinations in decoration requires great care.

Breakdown of Dekorasyonda renk kombinasyonları arasında uyum sağlamak büyük özen gerektirir.

• özen: the care
• büyük: great
• gerektirmek: to require
• -da: in
• arasında: among
• -lar: plural
• dekorasyon: the decoration
• kombinasyon: the combination
• renk: color
• uyum sağlamak: to achieve harmony

Questions & Answers about Dekorasyonda renk kombinasyonları arasında uyum sağlamak büyük özen gerektirir.

What does Dekorasyonda mean and what case ending is used here?

Dekorasyonda is dekorasyon (decoration) + the locative suffix -da, so it literally means “in decoration” or “in decorating.” The suffix -da marks the locative case, answering the question “where?”

Why is it renk kombinasyonları arasında and what does arasında do?

Arasında means “between” or “among.” When you want to say “among X,” you place arasında after the noun phrase. Here, renk kombinasyonları (“color combinations,” in the plural nominative) + arasında gives “among color combinations.”

What is uyum sağlamak and how do the two words work together?

Uyum means “harmony” and sağlamak means “to provide” or “to ensure.” Together, uyum sağlamak is an idiomatic collocation meaning “to achieve harmony” or “to ensure a harmonious look.”

What does büyük özen gerektirir mean and why is the verb in the aorist tense?

• Büyük = great
• Özen = care or attention
• Gerektirir = from the verb gerektirmek (“to require”) in the aorist tense

Together, büyük özen gerektirir means “it requires great care.” The aorist -r form expresses a general truth or habitual fact rather than a single ongoing action.

Why isn’t there an accusative suffix on özen (i.e. why not özeni)?

In Turkish, direct objects that are indefinite (general, unspecific) typically do not take the accusative suffix -ı/-i/-u/-ü. Since “great care” here is not a specific piece of care but care in general, it remains özen rather than özeni.

Could we say büyük özen gereklidir instead? What’s the difference?

Yes.

• Büyük özen gereklidir = “great care is necessary.” Here gerekli is an adjective (“necessary”) + the copula -dir.
• Büyük özen gerektirir = “(it) requires great care.” uses the verb gerektirmek (“to require”).

Both express necessity, but gerektirir focuses on the action of requiring, while gerekli simply describes something as necessary.

What is kombinasyon and why is it pluralized as kombinasyonları?

Kombinasyon is a loanword meaning “combination.” Since the sentence refers to multiple color combinations, we add the plural suffix -lar to get kombinasyonlar, and then the possessive/accusative vowel harmony gives kombinasyonları when it’s followed by arasında.