Questions & Answers about Mühendisin maaşı çok iyi.
Why is the suffix on mühendis just -in and not -nin?
The genitive suffix, which acts like 's, takes the form -in, -ın, -un, or -ün after a consonant. Because mühendis ends in the consonant s, we don't need the buffer letter n that you would use if the word ended in a vowel. We just add -in.
Why is there an -ı at the end of maaşı?
In English, we just say 'the engineer's salary'. But in Turkish, when you put a genitive 's suffix on the owner (mühendisin), you must also add a possessive suffix to the thing they own. So maaş (salary) becomes maaşı (his/her salary). Literally, the phrase works like 'the engineer's his/her-salary'.
Both mühendisin and maaşı get suffixes, so why do they use different vowels (i vs ı)?
They both follow 4-way vowel harmony, but they look at the last vowel of their own base words. The last vowel in mühendis is i, so its suffix gets an i (-in). The only vowel in maaş is a, so its suffix gets an ı (-ı).
There is no verb here, so how does the sentence mean 'is very good'?
Turkish often leaves out the 'to be' verb (am/is/are) for simple factual statements in the present tense. Çok iyi translates as 'very good', but when placed at the end of a sentence to describe something, the 'is' is naturally understood by Turkish speakers.
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