Word
Yeni işini kutluyoruz.
Meaning
We are celebrating his new job.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Yeni işini kutluyoruz.
If I wanted to ask 'What are we celebrating?', how does the question word neyi fit in?
Because 'his new job' is a specific thing, you ask about it using Neyi kutluyoruz? (What specific thing are we celebrating?). The answer, Yeni işini, has the matching accusative -i ending that goes with neyi.
Why does iş (job) have the ending -ini?
It actually has two suffixes! First, -i makes it 'his job' (possessive). Then, because it is the specific object we are celebrating, it needs the accusative case suffix, which is also -i. The letter -n- is a buffer to separate the two vowels, giving us iş-i-n-i.
The dictionary form for 'celebrate' is kutlamak. Why does it become kutluyoruz and not kutlayoruz?
When a verb stem ends in a vowel (like kutla-), that vowel drops before adding the present continuous suffix. So, kutla drops the a, and takes -uyor to follow vowel harmony, becoming kutluyoruz.
How do we know it is 'his' new job if the word onun (his) is missing?