Breakdown of Yatağı söktükten sonra odaya yerleştirdik.
oda
room
yatak
bed
sonra
after
sökmek
to dismantle
yerleştirmek
to place / to arrange (physically)
Questions & Answers about Yatağı söktükten sonra odaya yerleştirdik.
Why does the word for bed (yatak) change to yatağı here?
It takes the accusative case suffix -ı because the bed is the specific, defined object being dismantled. When you add a vowel suffix to a word ending in -k, that consonant softens into a -ğ (yatak -> yatağı).
How does söktükten sonra translate to "after dismantling"?
To say "after doing [action]" in Turkish, you take the verb root (sök-) and add the past participle suffix -DIk (which becomes -tük due to vowel harmony and consonant assimilation), followed by the ablative "from" case -tAn (becoming -ten), and finally the word sonra. Literally, it means "after from the dismantling".
The English translation says "we placed it", but I don't see the word for "it" (onu). Why?
In Turkish, it is very common to drop pronoun objects like onu (it/him/her) if the object is already obvious from the context. Since yatağı (the bed) was just established as the object in the first half of the sentence, repeating it with onu is unnecessary.
Why does oda (room) take the dative case (odaya)?
The verb yerleştirmek (to place / to settle) requires the dative case (-(y)a/-(y)e) for the destination where something is being put. Because you are placing the bed into the room, oda takes the buffer -y- and the dative -a to become odaya.
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