Koç, “ısınmayı aksatmayın” dedi ve herkes koşmaya başladı.

Aksatmak means to disrupt, neglect, let something slip, or not do something regularly/fully (often a scheduled or expected activity). It’s weaker than “cancel,” stronger than a one-off “forget,” and often implies harming the routine or quality.

• Close options:
  • ihmal etmek = to neglect (broader, can be more serious/long-term)
  • atlamak = to skip (outright skipping an instance)
  • geciktirmek = to delay
  • bozmak = to spoil/disrupt
  • sekteye uğratmak (formal) = to interrupt/set back

It’s the 2nd person plural imperative, used for:

• addressing a group: “you (all)”
• or politely addressing one person Other forms:
• 2nd person singular informal: aksatma!
• More formal/polite plural: aksatmayınız!

Isınma is a verbal noun (“warming up” / “the warm-up”). As the direct object of aksatmak, it appears as:

• ısınma + -yı → ısınmayı (buffer -y- because two vowels would meet) Using the accusative here treats the activity as a specific/given routine (the team’s warm-up). Without -ı, it would sound odd or incomplete in this command. The accusative is very common with such activity-noun objects when they’re understood as the known, specific routine.

No. Turkish -ma/-me does double duty:

• In ısınma, it’s the nominalizer that makes a verb into a noun: “ısınmak” (to warm up) → ısınma (warming up, the warm-up).
• In aksatmayın, it’s the negative marker on the verb. You tell them apart by context and endings. For example, ısınma! could be “don’t warm up!” (negative imperative) but ısınmayı must be a noun (it has accusative -yı).

Turkish inserts -y- between vowels to prevent two vowels from clashing:

• ısınma + ı → ısınma-y-ı
• aksatma + ın → aksatma-y-ın This is a regular phonetic smoothing rule.

With verbs like başlamak, Turkish uses the verbal noun in -ma/-me plus the dative -(y)a:

• koş-ma-ya başlamak = to start running Other common patterns with -maya/-meye:
• yapmaya çalışmak (try to do)
• çalışmaya/okumaya devam etmek (continue working/reading)
• konuşmaya başlamak (start speaking)

Turkish direct speech is commonly punctuated like this:

• Subject + comma, then the quoted words, then dedi: Koç, “Isınmayı aksatmayın” dedi. Many publishers also put a comma inside the closing quote before dedi:
• Koç, “Isınmayı aksatmayın,” dedi. Both are seen. A colon is also possible in some styles:
• Koç: “Isınmayı aksatmayın.”

After a direct quotation, Turkish overwhelmingly uses dedi. Söyledi is more natural with reported/indirect content:

• Direct: Koç, “Isınmayı aksatmayın,” dedi. (preferred)
• Indirect: Koç, ısınmayı aksatmamamız gerektiğini söyledi. (reported content) You can also use other reporting verbs with suitable structures: uyardı (warned), emir verdi (ordered), bağırdı (shouted), often with diye: “Isınmayı aksatmayın,” diye bağırdı.

Yes, Turkish word order is flexible when context is clear:

• Herkes koşmaya başladı, koç ısınmayı aksatmayın dedi.
• Or split into two sentences: Koç ısınmayı aksatmayın dedi. Herkes koşmaya başladı. Choice affects flow/emphasis more than grammaticality.

It’s the activity/the routine (the team’s warm-up session). Turkish often uses -ma/-me nouns to talk about activities: koşma (running), çalışma (working/study), alıştırma (exercise). With aksatmak, it implies “don’t neglect/disrupt the warm-up routine.” Alternatives:

• ısınmayı ihmal etmeyin (don’t neglect)
• ısınmayı atlamayın (don’t skip)