Learn Turkish: Kaçmayan düşman kuvvetlerine silah bıraktırıldı. - The enemy forces who did not escape were forced to drop their weapons.

Kaçmayan düşman kuvvetlerine silah bıraktırıldı.

The enemy forces who did not escape were forced to drop their weapons.

Breakdown of Kaçmayan düşman kuvvetlerine silah bıraktırıldı.

kaçmak

to run away

bırakmak

to leave (something somewhere), to drop off / to release, to let go of / to quit / to stop (doing something)

Questions & Answers about Kaçmayan düşman kuvvetlerine silah bıraktırıldı.

How do the causative and passive suffixes work together in bıraktırıldı?

The root is bırakmak (to drop or leave). First, we add the causative suffix -tır to get bıraktırmak (to make someone drop). Then, we add the passive suffix -ıl to get bıraktırılmak (to be made to drop). Finally, -dı makes it past tense.

Why is kuvvetlerine in the dative case (-e) here?

This is a standard rule with causative verbs. When you force someone to do an action that takes a direct object (like dropping a weapon), the person being forced takes the dative case. So literally, the action of dropping weapons was forced upon the enemy forces.

Why doesn't the verb bıraktırıldı have a plural suffix if it is about multiple enemy forces?

Because the enemy forces (düşman kuvvetlerine) are not the grammatical subject of the sentence; they have a dative ending and act as the indirect object. The grammatical subject of the passive verb is actually the singular word silah (weapon).

What is the -i doing in the middle of kuvvetlerine?