Breakdown of Polis tanıktan ilk görüşmede şüphelenmiş.
ilk
first
görüşme
the discussion
polis
the police officer
tanık
a witness (person who directly observed an event)
Questions & Answers about Polis tanıktan ilk görüşmede şüphelenmiş.
Why is it tanıktan and not tanığı or tanıkı?
Because the verb şüphelenmek normally takes the ablative case: -den / -dan / -ten / -tan.
So:
- birinden şüphelenmek = to suspect someone
- bir şeyden şüphelenmek = to suspect something / be suspicious of something
That is why tanık becomes:
- tanık = witness
- tanıktan = from the witness / of the witness in the grammatical sense required by şüphelenmek
This is one of those places where Turkish and English structure things differently. English says suspect the witness, but Turkish says something more like be suspicious of/from the witness.
Also, tanıkı would be wrong because the correct accusative form would actually be tanığı, but this verb does not use the accusative here.
What exactly does şüphelenmek mean?