Questions & Answers about Uçağın motoru çok büyük.
How do we form "the airplane's engine" in Turkish?
Turkish uses a definite noun compound (Genitive + Possessive) to show exact ownership. You add a genitive suffix to the owner (uçağın = the airplane's) and a possessive suffix to the thing owned (motoru = its engine). Together, uçağın motoru literally acts like "the airplane's its engine".
Why does the word for airplane, uçak, change to uçağın with a ğ?
This happens because of consonant mutation. When you add a suffix that starts with a vowel—like the genitive suffix -ın—to a word ending in k, the k softens into a ğ (soft g). So, uçak + ın becomes uçağın.
Why is the suffix on motor exactly -u?
The word motor needs the 3rd-person possessive suffix (meaning "its"). Since motor ends in a consonant, we don't need the buffer letter s (which is only used if the word ends in a vowel). Because the last vowel in motor is o, 4-way vowel harmony tells us the suffix must be -u, making it motoru.
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
In Turkish, there is no separate word for "is" in this context. You simply put the subject (uçağın motoru) right next to the description (çok büyük). The "is" is naturally understood by putting the words together.
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