Breakdown of Göndericiyi öğrenmek için koliye baktım.
öğrenmek
to learn
bakmak
to look
için
for
koli
parcel
gönderici
sender
Questions & Answers about Göndericiyi öğrenmek için koliye baktım.
How do we express 'in order to find out' in this sentence?
We use the dictionary form of the verb, öğrenmek, followed by için. Whenever you want to say 'in order to do' something in Turkish, you combine the full infinitive (-mak or -mek) with için.
I thought öğrenmek meant 'to learn'. Does it also mean 'to find out'?
Exactly. While you first learned it as 'to learn' a subject or skill, öğrenmek is also the standard verb for finding out a piece of information or discovering a fact.
Why is the accusative ending -yi attached to gönderici?
Because the sender is the specific direct object of the verb öğrenmek. We want to find out the specific sender, so we add the accusative case. Since gönderici ends in a vowel, it gets the buffer letter -y- before the -i ending.
Why do we say koliye instead of just using koli?
The verb bakmak (to look) requires the dative case (-e or -a), which shows the direction your eyes are looking. Since koli (parcel) ends in a vowel, we add the buffer -y- and the ending -e to mean 'at the parcel'.
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