Breakdown of Nüfus artınca şehir değişti.
şehir
city
değişmek
to change (intransitive, undergo change)
nüfus
population
artmak
to increase
Questions & Answers about Nüfus artınca şehir değişti.
The lesson is teaching -(y)alı (since). Why does this sentence use artınca instead?
The ending -(y)ınca means 'when' or 'as soon as'. If we used the lesson's ending to make artalı, the sentence Nüfus artalı şehir değişti would mean 'The city has changed since the population increased.' Here, artınca simply focuses on what happened at the time the population went up.
How exactly is artınca formed?
It comes from the verb artmak (to increase). We take the root art- and add the temporal ending -ınca (when). Because the root ends in a consonant, we do not need the buffer letter y that you would see in a word like başlayınca (when starting).
I learned that verbs ending in 't' often change to 'd' when a vowel is added. Why is it not ardınca?
It is true that many common verbs ending in t soften to d before a vowel, like gitmek becoming gidince. However, artmak is an exception to this consonant softening rule. The t remains unchanged, so it is always artınca.
Both nüfus and şehir act as subjects here. Why do neither of them have any special case endings?
In this sentence, there are two separate actions with their own subjects: the population increasing, and the city changing. Because both nüfus (population) and şehir (city) are the direct doers of their respective verbs, they stay in the plain dictionary form (nominative case) and do not take any extra endings.
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