Word
Onu oyalamak için bezini şarkı söyleyerek değiştiriyorum.
Meaning
To distract him, I am changing his diaper while singing a song.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Onu oyalamak için bezini şarkı söyleyerek değiştiriyorum.
o
that / he / she / it
şarkı
song
söylemek
to say, to sing
için
for
Questions & Answers about Onu oyalamak için bezini şarkı söyleyerek değiştiriyorum.
Since this lesson is about -(y)AnA kadar, could I use şarkı söyleyene kadar here instead?
That would completely change the meaning! The lesson's focus, -(y)AnA kadar, means "until doing". If you said şarkı söyleyene kadar değiştiriyorum, it would mean "I am changing his diaper until I sing a song." Here, the speaker uses the suffix -(y)ArAk to show two actions happening at the same time: changing the diaper while singing.
How does söyleyerek translate to "while singing"?
The suffix -(y)ArAk or -(y)ErEk attaches to a verb stem to show how an action is performed, translating to "by doing" or "while doing". Here, söylemek (to sing/say) drops the infinitive -mek, takes the buffer -y-, and adds -erek to become söyleyerek. It describes the manner in which the diaper is being changed.
Why is the word for diaper bezini instead of just bez or bezi?
The root is bez (diaper/cloth). First, we add the 3rd person possessive suffix -i to make bezi (his diaper). Because this specific diaper is the direct object of the verb değiştiriyorum (I am changing), we must add the accusative case suffix -i. The letter -n- acts as a buffer between the possessive and the accusative suffixes, resulting in bezini.