Breakdown of Bütün bağışlar o projeye akıtılırdı.
o
that / he / she / it
proje
project
bütün
all, whole
akıtmak
to let flow / to pour (cause to flow)
bağış
donation
Questions & Answers about Bütün bağışlar o projeye akıtılırdı.
How do we get the meaning "to pour" from akıtılırdı?
The root of the verb is actually akmak, which means "to flow". To get "to pour", we add the causative suffix -ıt, turning it into akıtmak (literally "to make flow").
How is the passive voice formed in this long verb?
After the causative suffix -ıt, we add the passive suffix -ıl. So the verb builds up step-by-step: ak- (flow) becomes akıt- (pour/make flow), which then becomes akıtıl- (be poured). This causative-passive double derivation is a very common pattern in Turkish.
Which suffixes give us the "would be" meaning in akıtılırdı?
That comes from combining the aorist suffix -ır with the past tense suffix -dı. The combination -ırdı is used to express "would" in English. It can describe a past habit (something that "would" repeatedly happen) or act as the main result clause of a conditional sentence (something that "would happen" if a condition were met).
Why is it projeye instead of just proje or projede?
In English we say "poured into that project," but the Turkish verb akıtmak (to pour) requires the dative case -(y)e to show the destination or direction of the flow. Since proje ends in a vowel, it takes the buffer letter -y-, becoming projeye (to/into the project).
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