Breakdown of Mühendisler yeni projeyi araştırsınlar.
mühendis
engineer
yeni
new
proje
project
araştırmak
to research
Questions & Answers about Mühendisler yeni projeyi araştırsınlar.
How does araştırsınlar translate to "Let them research"?
The verb root is araştır (to research). To make it a command or suggestion for a third person ("let him/her/it do it"), we add the suffix -sın. Because the subject is plural ("engineers" / "them"), we add the plural suffix -lar, making it araştırsınlar.
Does the verb have to end in -lar since mühendisler is already plural?
In Turkish, when the subject is a plural human (like mühendisler), making the verb plural with -lar or -ler is optional but very common. You could also perfectly say Mühendisler yeni projeyi araştırsın and it would mean the exact same thing.
Why is the word for project written as projeyi instead of just proje?
We use the accusative case suffix -(y)i because "the new project" is a specific, known object receiving the action. Proje ends in a vowel, so we add the buffer letter y before the suffix to make it projeyi.
Could I use the -sınlar or -sinler ending if the plural subject wasn't human?