Köpeğin tasmasını takmadan dışarı çıkmıyorum.

the dog

Breakdown of Köpeğin tasmasını takmadan dışarı çıkmıyorum.

• çıkmak: to go out
• dışarı: outside
• -in: of

Questions & Answers about Köpeğin tasmasını takmadan dışarı çıkmıyorum.

Why is it köpeğin and not just köpek?

Because köpeğin is in the genitive case here: it means of the dog / the dog's.

This sentence contains a very common Turkish pattern:

• köpeğ-in = the dog's
• tasma-sı = its leash / the leash of it

Together, köpeğin tasması means the dog's leash.

So Turkish marks both parts of this relationship:

• the owner/possessor gets -in
• the thing owned gets a possessive ending, here -sı

This is the normal structure for X's Y in Turkish.

Why does köpek become köpeğ- in köpeğin?

This is because of consonant softening.

The base word is:

• köpek = dog

When a vowel-initial suffix is added, the final k often changes to ğ:

• köpek → köpeğin

So this is not a different word; it is just a normal sound change in Turkish morphology.

You will see the same kind of thing in many words.

What exactly is tasmasını made of?