Breakdown of Berber fırçasını yıkayıp kurutacak.
yıkamak
to wash
fırça
brush
berber
barber
kurutmak
to dry (by air or heat)
Questions & Answers about Berber fırçasını yıkayıp kurutacak.
How do we know that yıkayıp means "will wash"? There is no future tense suffix on it.
The suffix -(y)ıp connects two verbs and means "and". In Turkish, when you connect verbs this way, only the final verb in the sentence gets the tense and person suffixes. So, kurutacak (will dry) tells us that yıkayıp also happens in the future for the "he/she/it" subject.
Why is there a -y- in yıkayıp?
The verb root for "wash" is yıka, which ends in a vowel. The connecting suffix we are adding is -ıp (this changes to -ip, -up, or -üp depending on vowel harmony). When adding a suffix that starts with a vowel to a word that ends in a vowel, we need the buffer letter -y- to keep them separate.
Can you break down the suffixes on fırçasını?
Sure! The root is fırça (brush). First, we add -sı (his) to make it "his brush". Then, because the brush is the specific direct object being washed and dried, we need the accusative case suffix -ı. When adding any case suffix right after a third-person possessive suffix, Turkish requires the buffer letter -n-. So we get fırça + sı + n + ı.
The translation says "dry it", but I don't see a word for "it" in the Turkish sentence. Why is that?