Breakdown of Telgraf, tekerlekten yüzyıllar sonra icat edildi.
sonra
after
tekerlek
wheel
icat etmek
to invent
yüzyıl
century
telgraf
telegraph
Questions & Answers about Telgraf, tekerlekten yüzyıllar sonra icat edildi.
How does the passive suffix work in icat edildi?
The active verb for 'to invent' is the compound icat etmek. To make it passive ('to be invented'), we apply the passive suffix -il to the helper verb root et-. Because the suffix starts with a vowel, the t in et- softens to a d, becoming edil-. Finally, we add the past tense -di to get icat edildi.
Why isn't the passive suffix added directly to icat?
Why does tekerlek (wheel) take the -ten ending?
The postposition sonra (after) requires the noun it refers to to take the ablative case (the 'from' ending, -dAn). Because tekerlek ends in a hard consonant (k), the suffix hardens to -ten. Together with sonra, it forms the structure for 'after the wheel'.
In English we say 'centuries after the wheel', but here yüzyıllar (centuries) is between tekerlekten and sonra. Why?
When you specify an amount of time that passed after an event, Turkish places that time amount right in front of sonra. The standard formula is [Noun]-dAn [Time Amount] sonra. That is why 'centuries after the wheel' is built as tekerlekten yüzyıllar sonra.
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