Biz planlı çalışarak işimizi sürdürmeliyiz.

to work

Breakdown of Biz planlı çalışarak işimizi sürdürmeliyiz.

• biz: we
• planlı: planned
• -arak: by

Questions & Answers about Biz planlı çalışarak işimizi sürdürmeliyiz.

What does planlı çalışarak mean, and how is it formed?

• planlı comes from plan (plan) + adjective suffix -lı, meaning “with a plan” or “planned.”
• çalışarak is the present participle (gerund) of çalışmak (to work) formed with -arak, meaning “by working.”
• Together planlı çalışarak means “by working in a planned (systematic) way,” i.e. “systematically.”

What is the function of the suffix -arak on çalışarak?

• -arak / -erek attaches to a verb stem to create an adverbial participle (zarf fiil), answering “how?”
• It expresses simultaneous or causal action: planlı çalışarak = “while/through working systematically.”

Why is işimizi in this form, and what do the suffixes -imiz and -i indicate?

• iş means “work” or “business.”
• -imiz is the 1st person plural possessive suffix: “our.”
• -i is the accusative (definite object) marker, showing “our work” is a specific, definite object of sürdürmeliyiz.
• So işimizi = “our work/our business” (as the object).

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