Word
Değişim öğrencisi yarın gelecekse, onu havaalanında karşılayacağız.
Meaning
If the exchange student is going to come tomorrow, we will meet him at the airport.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Değişim öğrencisi yarın gelecekse, onu havaalanında karşılayacağız.
o
that / he / she / it
öğrenci
student
gelmek
to come
yarın
tomorrow
Questions & Answers about Değişim öğrencisi yarın gelecekse, onu havaalanında karşılayacağız.
How is the word gelecekse formed to mean "if he is going to come"?
It combines the future tense and the conditional suffix. We start with the verb root gel- (to come). We add the future tense suffix -ecek to get gelecek (he/she will come). Finally, we add the conditional suffix -se (if) to make gelecekse (if he is going to come).
Why is there an -si at the end of öğrencisi in değişim öğrencisi?
This is a noun compound. In Turkish, when you put two nouns together to make a new concept (like "exchange" + "student"), the second noun needs a possessive suffix. Here, öğrenci gets the third-person possessive suffix -si to link it to değişim (exchange).
Why use onu for "him" instead of just o?
Because "him" is the specific direct object of the action (we are meeting him). To show this, we take the pronoun o (he/she/it) and add the accusative case suffix -u. The letter -n- acts as a buffer between the two vowels, giving us onu.
What happens to the future suffix in karşılayacağız (we will meet)?