Word
Meditasyon yapmadan önce zihnimi boşaltıyorum.
Meaning
Before doing meditation, I empty my mind.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Meditasyon yapmadan önce zihnimi boşaltıyorum.
yapmak
to do / to make
önce
before / first / firstly
meditasyon
meditation
zihin
mind
Questions & Answers about Meditasyon yapmadan önce zihnimi boşaltıyorum.
How do we get 'before doing' from yapmadan önce?
To say 'before doing' an action, Turkish attaches the suffix -madan or -meden to the verb root, followed by the word önce (before). Here, we take the root yap- (do), add -madan to match its back vowels, and get yapmadan önce.
Why is the word for mind spelled zihnimi here instead of zihinimi?
The dictionary form for mind is zihin. However, like many two-syllable Turkish words, it drops its second vowel when a suffix starting with a vowel is added. So, zihin becomes zihn- before adding the next suffixes.
What do the suffixes at the end of zihnimi mean?
There are two suffixes attached to the root zihn-. The first is -im, making it zihnim (my mind). The second is the accusative case marker -i, making it zihnimi. We need the accusative case here because the mind is the specific direct object receiving the action of the verb boşaltıyorum.
How does the verb boşaltıyorum relate to the word boş (empty)?