Breakdown of Balayı için gidecekleri ülke çok uzak.
çok
very
gitmek
to go
uzak
far
ülke
country
için
for
balayı
honeymoon
Questions & Answers about Balayı için gidecekleri ülke çok uzak.
How is gidecekleri formed to mean "that they will go to"?
This uses the future relative participle taught in this lesson! It is made of the verb root git- (to go) + -ecek (future participle) + -leri (their). Literally, it acts like an adjective meaning "their future-going". Also, notice that the t in git- softens to d because it is followed by a vowel.
Where is the word for "to" in the Turkish sentence?
Turkish doesn't use extra words for "to" or "which" in these relative clauses. While in English we say "the country to which they will go" or "the country they will go to", Turkish simply links the participle directly to the noun. The directional "to" is naturally implied by the context of the destination (ülke) and the verb (gitmek).
Could gidecekleri also mean "the countries that he or she will go to"?
That is a great catch! The suffix -leri can sometimes be -ler (plural) + -i (his/her). However, because the noun here is ülke (singular country), -leri must represent the plural possessive "their". If the sentence meant "the countries he/she will go to", the plural marker would move to the noun, making it gideceği ülkeler.
Why does the word for honeymoon, balayı, end in -ı?
Balayı is a noun compound built from bal (honey) and ay (moon or month). In Turkish, when you put two nouns together to create a specific new concept, you usually have to add a possessive suffix to the second word. That is why ay gets the -ı suffix to become balayı.
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