Learn Turkish: Terapiye devam ettikçe kaygın azalabilir. - As long as you continue therapy, your anxiety can decrease.

In Turkish, the verb devam etmek (to continue) requires the dative case for the thing you are continuing. You add the buffer -y- and the dative -e, making it literally 'continue to therapy'.

How does the new -dIkçA suffix change the meaning of devam etmek here?

The suffix -dIkçA adds the meaning of 'as long as' or 'the more you do something'. It attaches to the helping verb et-. Because et- ends in a hard consonant, the suffix starts with a 't' due to consonant mutation, becoming -tikçe. So devam ettikçe means 'as long as (you) continue'.

How do we know it means 'as long as you continue' if ettikçe has no personal ending?

Converb suffixes like -dIkçA do not take personal endings (like -im or -sin). We figure out who is doing the action from the context. Since the rest of the sentence is about kaygın (your anxiety), it's clear the action of continuing also applies to 'you'.

Can you break down the suffixes in azalabilir?