Breakdown of Meteoroloji uzmanları, yarın nemin artacağını söylüyor.
söylemek
to say, to sing
yarın
tomorrow
artmak
to increase
uzman
expert
meteoroloji
meteorology
nem
humidity
Questions & Answers about Meteoroloji uzmanları, yarın nemin artacağını söylüyor.
Why is the word for humidity written as nemin instead of just nem?
In Turkish complement clauses, the subject of the embedded action takes the genitive (possessive) ending. Because "the humidity" is the thing that will increase, nem becomes nemin. You can think of the literal structure as "the experts are saying the humidity's future increasing."
Can you break down the suffixes in artacağını?
The verb root is art- (to increase). To create a future statement ("that it will increase"), we add the future suffix -acak, which mutates to -acağ- before a vowel. Next is the 3rd-person possessive suffix -ı, which links back to nemin (the humidity's). Finally, we add the buffer letter -n- and the accusative case suffix -ı.
Why do we need the accusative case at the very end of artacağını?
The accusative case (the final -ı) is required by the main verb söylüyor (is saying). The experts are saying a specific thing (that the humidity will increase). Since this entire embedded clause acts as the definite direct object of the verb söylemek, it must take the accusative case.
Why is there an -ı at the end of uzmanları if it is the subject of the main sentence?
The phrase Meteoroloji uzmanları is a noun compound linking "meteorology" and "experts" (uzmanlar). In Turkish, when you put two nouns together like this to create a single concept, the second noun must take the possessive compound suffix, which is the -ı here.
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