Breakdown of On beş öğrenci ırkçılığa karşı bir protesto düzenliyor.
bir
a / an
öğrenci
student
beş
five
on
ten
düzenlemek
to arrange / to organize
ırkçılık
racism
karşı
against, towards
protesto
protest
Questions & Answers about On beş öğrenci ırkçılığa karşı bir protesto düzenliyor.
Why is there an -a at the end of ırkçılığa before karşı?
The postposition karşı (meaning "against" or "towards") always requires the word before it to be in the dative case (the "to" or "for" direction). So, to say "against racism", you must say ırkçılığa karşı (literally "to racism against").
The dictionary word for racism is ırkçılık. Why does the k change to a ğ in ırkçılığa?
This is a rule called consonant mutation. When a word ends in k and you add a suffix that starts with a vowel (like the dative ending -a), the k almost always softens to a ğ (soft g) to make pronunciation flow more smoothly.
Since there are fifteen students, shouldn't it be on beş öğrenciler?
No, in Turkish, when you use a specific number before a noun, the noun stays in its singular form. It is always on beş öğrenci, never plural.
The verb root for "to organize" is düzenle-. What happened to the e in düzenliyor?
When adding the present continuous suffix -yor to a verb that ends in a vowel (like düzenle-), that final vowel gets narrowed. Because of vowel harmony, the e shrinks into an i, creating düzenliyor instead of "düzenleyor".
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