Word
Aşçının yaptığı pasta mükemmel, hadi bir tane daha alalım.
Meaning
The cake that the cook made is perfect, let's get one more.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Aşçının yaptığı pasta mükemmel, hadi bir tane daha alalım.
bir
a / an
tane
piece / item
yapmak
to do / to make
almak
to take, to buy
Questions & Answers about Aşçının yaptığı pasta mükemmel, hadi bir tane daha alalım.
How exactly does yaptığı translate to "that ... made"?
The verb root is yap (make). We add the object participle suffix -tık (a variation of -dIk), followed by the 3rd person possessive suffix -ı because the cook ("he" or "she") is doing the making. When the vowel -ı is added, the k at the end of -tık softens to a ğ, giving us yaptığı.
Why does aşçı (cook) have the genitive (possessor) suffix -nın here?
In Turkish, when you use the -dIk relative clause, the person doing the action is grammatically treated like a possessor. Just like you would say aşçının şapkası (the cook's hat), you say aşçının yaptığı (literally "the cook's making"). The -nın on the cook pairs with the possessive -ı on the verb to show who is doing the action.
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