Breakdown of Onu şehre taşınmaya ikna ettin mi?
o
that / he / she / it
şehir
city
taşınmak
to move (residence)
mi
question particle (mı/mi/mu/mü)
Questions & Answers about Onu şehre taşınmaya ikna ettin mi?
Why is there an -a at the end of taşınmaya?
The verb ikna etmek (to convince) requires the dative case (-a or -e) for the action you are convincing someone to do. Here, the verbal noun taşınma (moving) gets the buffer -y- and the dative -a, becoming taşınmaya.
If we use the dative for the action, why is the person Onu and not Ona?
Because ikna etmek assigns two different cases! The person you are convincing is the direct object, which takes the accusative case (Onu). The action you want them to do takes the dative case (taşınmaya). So you convince "him" (accusative) "to moving" (dative).
Why is "to the city" written as şehre instead of şehire?
The root word is şehir (city). However, it belongs to a special group of two-syllable words in Turkish that drop their second vowel when a suffix starting with a vowel is added. So, şehir plus the dative -e becomes şehre.
Can I use taşınmak anytime I want to say "to move"?