Açıklama hatanın bilindiğini ima ediyor.

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Breakdown of Açıklama hatanın bilindiğini ima ediyor.

• hata: the mistake
• açıklama: the explanation
• ima etmek: to imply rather than state directly

Questions & Answers about Açıklama hatanın bilindiğini ima ediyor.

How do I break this sentence down piece by piece?

A natural breakdown is:

• Açıklama = explanation, statement
• hatanın = of the error
• bilindiğini = that it is known
• ima ediyor = implies, is implying

So the structure is:

• Açıklama → subject
• hatanın bilindiğini → object
• ima ediyor → main verb

Very literally, it is something like:

• The explanation implies the error’s being known

More natural English is the meaning you were already given.

Why is hata becoming hatanın?

Because this sentence contains an embedded clause, and in this kind of Turkish structure the subject of the embedded clause usually takes the genitive ending.

Here, the embedded idea is:

• the error is known

In Turkish, with the -DIK type of clause, the subject is marked like this:

• hata → error
• hatanın → of the error

So hatanın bilindiği literally works like:

• the error’s being known
• or more naturally, that the error is known

This is a very common pattern in Turkish:

• Ali’nin geldiğini biliyorum = I know that Ali came / has come
• hatanın bilindiğini ima ediyor = it implies that the error is known