Object relative clauses (-dığı / -diği)

Object relative clauses (-dığı / -diği)

To describe a noun that is the object of an action—like "the movie that I watched" or "the meal that he cooked"—Turkish uses the object relative participle.

To form it, add the suffix -dık, -dik, -duk, or -dük (following vowel harmony) to the verb stem, followed by a possessive ending to show who performs the action. Because possessive endings start with a vowel, the k in the suffix almost always mutates to ğ.

Note: Verbs ending in a voiceless consonant (like t or p) will change the first letter of the suffix to t (e.g., gittiğimiz, yaptıkları). For the "they" form, the suffix is followed by -ları / -leri; since this does not start with a vowel, the k does not mutate.

Giving reviews and recommendations

When writing a review, place the participle directly before the noun it describes. This allows you to easily evaluate the service or portion size that you experienced.

Naming the subject

If you want to explicitly name the person or thing doing the action (like "the cook" or "they"), the sentence behaves like a genitive-possessive phrase. The subject takes the genitive suffix (like aşçının), and the participle takes the matching possessive suffix.