Breakdown of Geçen yılki deneyim yarınki beklentimi etkiliyor.
yarın
tomorrow
yıl
year
geçen
last, previous
etkilemek
to affect
deneyim
experience
beklenti
expectation
Questions & Answers about Geçen yılki deneyim yarınki beklentimi etkiliyor.
Why do yılki and yarınki just use -ki? Don't we normally need the locative suffix -da or -de before -ki?
Usually, yes! When making an adjective from a place, you use -daki or -deki (like masadaki - the one on the table). However, with time words, -ki attaches directly to the root word without the locative suffix. So yıl (year) becomes yılki (the one from that year) and yarın (tomorrow) becomes yarınki (tomorrow's).
Why is there an -i at the very end of beklentimi?
Let's break beklentimi down. The root word is beklenti (expectation). We add -m to make it "my expectation" (beklentim). Finally, we add the accusative case suffix -i because "my expectation" is the specific direct object receiving the action of the verb etkiliyor (affects).
The dictionary says "to affect" is etkilemek. Why is the verb spelled etkiliyor instead of "etkileyor"?
This is because of vowel narrowing, a rule you might remember from earlier lessons. When a verb root ends in a wide vowel like -e or -a, adding the present continuous suffix -yor causes that vowel to narrow into -i, -ı, -u, or -ü. Here, the -e in etkile- changes to -i to harmonize, giving us etkiliyor.
Is geçen a specific word just for "last"?
It is used that way for time, but it actually comes from the verb geçmek (to pass). Literally, geçen yıl means "the passing year" or "the year that passed," which is the standard way to say "last year" in Turkish.
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