Breakdown of Hemşire nabzımı ölçtü ve doktoru beklememi söyledi.
doktor
doctor
hemşire
nurse
ve
and
beklemek
to wait
söylemek
to say, to sing
ölçmek
to measure
nabız
pulse
Questions & Answers about Hemşire nabzımı ölçtü ve doktoru beklememi söyledi.
Why is it beklememi and not just the infinitive beklemek?
This is how we form indirect commands in Turkish. To say 'told me to wait', you literally say 'told my waiting'. We take the verb stem bekle-, add the short verbal noun ending -me, then the possessive -m (my), and finally the accusative case -i because it is the direct object of the main verb söyledi.
How do we know who the nurse told to wait if there is no word for 'me' before söyledi?
The possessive suffix on the verbal noun tells us who is supposed to do the action. In beklememi, the -m means 'my waiting'. If the nurse had told us to wait, it would be beklememizi söyledi (told our waiting).
In English we wait 'for' the doctor. Why is it doktoru instead of doktor için?
In Turkish, the verb beklemek (to wait) takes a direct object, not a postposition like 'for'. You directly 'wait someone'. Since 'the doctor' is specific in this context, it gets the accusative case ending -u.
I know the word for pulse is nabız. Why did it become nabzımı here?
This is an example of vowel drop. Many two-syllable body parts and loanwords lose their second vowel when a suffix starting with a vowel is added. So, nabız plus -ım (my) becomes nabzım. Then we add the accusative -ı because it is what the nurse measured, making it nabzımı.
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