Word
Memur, yabancının parmak izi bırakmasını ve belgeye mühür basmasını emretti.
Meaning
The officer ordered the foreigner to leave a fingerprint and stamp the document.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Memur, yabancının parmak izi bırakmasını ve belgeye mühür basmasını emretti.
ve
and
bırakmak
to leave (something somewhere), to drop off / to release, to let go of / to quit / to stop (doing something)
belge
document
yabancı
stranger / foreigner
Questions & Answers about Memur, yabancının parmak izi bırakmasını ve belgeye mühür basmasını emretti.
Why is it yabancının (foreigner's) instead of yabancıya (to the foreigner)?
In Turkish, when someone performs an action inside a larger sentence, you often turn that action into a noun and treat the person as the owner. The literal structure here is that the officer ordered the yabancının (foreigner's) leaving and stamping. That is why the word takes the genitive suffix -nın.
Can you break down the suffixes on bırakmasını?
It starts with the verb root bırak (leave). The -ma turns it into a verbal noun (leaving). The -sı is the third-person possessive linking it to the foreigner (his/her leaving). The -n is a buffer letter, and the final -ı is the accusative case marker because the entire action is the direct object of emretti (ordered).
Why is the document in the dative case (belgeye)?
The verb basmak means to press or stamp, and it takes the dative case for the surface you are pressing onto. Because the foreigner is stamping onto the document, belge gets the dative suffix -ye.
Why does iz (trace/print) have an -i at the end in parmak izi?