Breakdown of Broşürü okurken sloganı hemen fark ettim; akılda kalıcı.
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-ken means “while/when” and turns a verb into an adverbial clause of time. Okurken = “while (I was) reading.”
- Formation: verb root oku-
- You may also hear okuyorken (present continuous stem okuyor
- -ken), which makes the ongoing nature of the action a bit more explicit. Both are natural; okurken is very common and idiomatic.
That is the definite accusative, used for specific, definite direct objects.
- broşür → broşürü (“the brochure” as a specific object)
- slogan → sloganı (“the slogan” as a specific object) Without the accusative, they would be indefinite (“a brochure,” “a slogan”): broşür okurken, bir slogan fark ettim.
The form sloganı is ambiguous out of context: it can be
- accusative “the slogan,” or
- nominative with 3rd person possessive “his/her/its slogan” (as a subject or topic), e.g., Onun sloganı çok kısa. In your sentence, after a verb, sloganı is clearly the definite object (“the slogan”). If you wanted “I noticed his slogan,” you’d say: Onun sloganını fark ettim (possessive + accusative).