Breakdown of Yatırımcının kazandığı büyük bir tutarmış.
bir
a / an
büyük
big
kazanmak
to earn / to win
yatırımcı
investor
Questions & Answers about Yatırımcının kazandığı büyük bir tutarmış.
Where is the word for 'what' or 'the thing' in this sentence?
There isn't a separate word for it! The word kazandığı is a headless relative clause. It is formed with the verb root kazan (to earn) + the participle suffix -dık + the 3rd person possessive -ı. Because there is no noun immediately following it, the participle acts as the noun itself, meaning 'the thing that they earned' or 'what they earned'.
Why does yatırımcı (investor) take the genitive suffix -nın?
In Turkish relative clauses made with -dık or -acak, the subject of that action takes the genitive case. So, yatırımcının (the investor's) links grammatically to the possessive suffix on kazandığı, creating a structure that literally translates to 'the investor's earned-thing'.
Why is the suffix -mış attached to tutar?
The suffix -mış here acts as the inferential 'to be' copula. When attached to a noun like tutar (amount), it translates to 'was apparently' or 'I heard it was'. The speaker is reporting information they learned from someone else or inferred, rather than a fact they witnessed directly.
How is the word yatırımcı built from its root?