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Kuş avcısı taze avını ağdan çıkarırken mandalı dikkatlice ayarladı.
Meaning
The bird catcher carefully adjusted the clamp while removing his fresh catch from the net.
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Questions & Answers about Kuş avcısı taze avını ağdan çıkarırken mandalı dikkatlice ayarladı.
What does Kuş avcısı mean, and how is this phrase formed?
Kuş avcısı means bird hunter. It’s a compound of kuş (bird) + avcı (hunter). The second element avcı takes the 3rd person singular possessive suffix -sı here to link it with kuş, so you get kuş avcısı = “hunter of birds.”
Why does avcı become avcısı in kuş avcısı?
Turkish often uses a genitive–possessive construction for “X of Y.” In full you’d say kuşun avcısı, where kuşun is the genitive of kuş and avcısı is avcı + -sı (3rd person singular possessive). In many compounds you drop the genitive -un but keep the possessor marker on the head noun, yielding kuş avcısı.
Why is avcısı spelled with ı and not i, and why isn’t it kuşçavcısı?
Turkish suffix vowels obey vowel harmony (front/back, rounded/unrounded). Avcı ends in ı (a back unrounded vowel), so the suffix -sI appears as -sı (back unrounded). Stems don’t change—only the suffix vowel changes—so you get avcısı. There’s no extra ç because kuş and avcı are separate stems in a compound.
In taze avını, why isn’t it just taze avı, and what does the -n- represent?