Saatin geç olduğunu unutma; yarın erken kalkman gerektiğini hatırla.

to be

Breakdown of Saatin geç olduğunu unutma; yarın erken kalkman gerektiğini hatırla.

• yarın: tomorrow
• unutmak: to forget
• gerekmek: to be necessary

Questions & Answers about Saatin geç olduğunu unutma; yarın erken kalkman gerektiğini hatırla.

In saatin geç olduğunu, what does saatin mean, and why does it have the suffix -in?

Saatin here is saat + -in, where:

• saat = time / the hour
• -in = genitive case (literally “of …”)

So saatin geç olduğunu literally means:

• “the time’s being late”
• or more naturally: “that the time is late / that it’s late”

In Turkish, when you turn a sentence into a noun clause (like “that it’s late”), the subject of that clause usually takes the genitive ending:

• Saat geç. → “It is late.” (normal sentence)
• Saatin geç olduğu… → “that the time is late…” (noun clause)

So saatin here is not “your clock” (which is also spelled saatin as a possessive); it’s “of the time”, i.e. “the time’s”.

You can tell it’s genitive (not “your X”) because it’s followed by a predicate (geç olduğunu) forming a clause, not by a simple noun.

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