Breakdown of Doktor yüksek nabzımı fark etti ve hızlı koşmamı yasakladı.
doktor
doctor
ve
and
koşmak
to run
hızlı
fast
fark etmek
to notice
yüksek
high
yasaklamak
to forbid
nabız
pulse
Questions & Answers about Doktor yüksek nabzımı fark etti ve hızlı koşmamı yasakladı.
Why is it koşmamı instead of just koşmayı?
This is the indirect command structure you are currently learning. To say "forbade me from running", Turkish phrases it as "forbade my running". You take the verb root (koş-), add the short verbal noun suffix (-ma), attach the first-person possessive -m ("my"), and finally add the accusative case -ı because "my running" is the direct object of the verb yasakladı (forbade).
I know the word for pulse is nabız. Why does it become nabzımı here?
This is a classic example of vowel drop. When certain two-syllable words like nabız get a suffix starting with a vowel (like the first-person possessive -ım), the second vowel of the root drops out to make it easier to pronounce. So, nabız + -ım becomes nabzım (my pulse). Then we add the accusative -ı to make nabzımı because it is the specific thing the doctor noticed.
Both nabzımı and koşmamı end in the exact same way. Are they doing the same grammatical job?
Yes, they follow the exact same grammatical pattern: a noun + first-person possessive + accusative case. The only difference is that nabız is a standard noun, while koşma is a verbal noun created from the verb koşmak. They both act as direct objects in their respective halves of the sentence (nabzımı belongs to fark etti, and koşmamı belongs to yasakladı).
Why is fark etti written as two separate words?
In Turkish, compound verbs made with helper verbs like etmek or olmak are written together as a single word only if a sound change (like a dropped vowel or a doubled consonant) happens. For example, his + etmek doubles the 's' and becomes hissetti. Since no sound change happens when combining fark and etmek, they remain separate words.
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