When setting up a new workspace, you will need various office supplies to keep things organized.
| The eraser and stapler on the desk are new. | Masadaki silgi ve zımba yeni. |
| This hole punch and the thumbtacks are necessary for the office. | Bu delgeç ve raptiyeler ofis için gerekli. |
Future Participles for Purpose: -(y)acak / -(y)ecek
To talk about items intended for a specific purpose or tasks that need to be done—like "documents to file" or "boxes to label"—Turkish uses the future participle as a noun modifier.
To form this, add the future suffix -(y)acak or -(y)ecek (using a buffer y if the verb stem ends in a vowel) to the bare verb stem. Then, place this modified verb immediately before the noun it describes.
Verb Stem + -(y)acak / -(y)ecek + Noun
For example, taking the verb dosyalamak (to file) gives the stem dosyala-. Adding the suffix produces dosyalayacak (to file / to be filed).
| There are many documents to file today. | Bugün dosyalayacak çok belge var. |
| Put the files to classify on the desk. | Sınıflandıracak dosyaları masaya koy. |
Since the participle acts as an adjective describing the noun's purpose, the noun itself can still take any case markers required by the rest of the sentence.
| Let's leave the papers to sort out in that box. | Ayrıştıracak kâğıtları şu kutuya bırakalım. |
| After cleaning the drawers, I prepared the boxes to label. | Çekmeceleri temizledikten sonra etiketleyecek kutuları hazırladım. |
You can use this form with any task or supply to describe exactly what an item is meant for.
| Isn't there a cartridge to use in the drawer? | Çekmecede kullanacak kartuş yok mu? |
| Take the thumbtacks to fasten to the board from the drawer. | Panoya tutturacak raptiyeleri çekmeceden al. |