Word
Heyetin reddettiği ateşkes, uzlaşmak yerine bizi tehdit etmelerine neden oldu.
Meaning
The ceasefire that the delegation rejected caused them to threaten us instead of reaching a consensus.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Heyetin reddettiği ateşkes, uzlaşmak yerine bizi tehdit etmelerine neden oldu.
biz
we
reddetmek
to reject, to decline
yerine
instead of
neden olmak
to cause
Questions & Answers about Heyetin reddettiği ateşkes, uzlaşmak yerine bizi tehdit etmelerine neden oldu.
How does tehdit etmelerine translate to "them to threaten"?
This follows the exact structure from our current lesson! It breaks down into tehdit et-me-leri-ne. The -me is the short verbal noun suffix, turning the verb into a noun. -leri is the 3rd person plural possessive ("their"). Finally, -ne is the dative case ("to"). The main verb neden olmak (to cause) requires the dative case for the thing being caused. So, it literally translates as "caused to their threatening."
Why does the sentence start with Heyetin (genitive case) instead of just Heyet?
This is required by the relative clause reddettiği ateşkes (the ceasefire that the delegation rejected). When you describe a noun with an action that someone else did, the "doer" of that action takes the genitive case (Heyetin = the delegation's), and the verb gets a matching possessive ending (reddet-tiğ-i = its rejected).
Why is it bizi (accusative) here when the main verb neden olmak takes the dative case?
In a complex sentence, each verb dictates the case of its own specific objects. The dative requirement of neden oldu (caused) is satisfied by the action it caused: etmelerine (to their threatening). However, the pronoun "us" belongs to the internal verb tehdit etmek (to threaten). Because you threaten a direct object, "we" takes the accusative case to become bizi.
How do you form "instead of [doing an action]", like "instead of reaching a consensus"?