Breakdown of İşletme, borçlarını ödemediğinden dolayı iflas etti.
ödemek
to pay
borç
debt
dolayı
due to, because of
işletme
business / enterprise
iflas etmek
to go bankrupt
Questions & Answers about İşletme, borçlarını ödemediğinden dolayı iflas etti.
How does ödemediğinden dolayı translate to "because it did not pay"?
This uses the causal clause structure from this lesson. We take the negative verb root ödeme- (not to pay), add the participle suffix -dik (which softens to -diğ), the 3rd person possessive -in (its), and the ablative case -den (from). The postposition dolayı means "due to". Literally, it translates to "due to its not-paying".
Can I drop dolayı from this sentence and just say ödemediğinden?
Why are there two -ı suffixes at the end of borçlarını?
The word breaks down as borç (debt) + -lar (plural) + -ı (possessive "its") + -n- (buffer letter) + -ı (accusative case). The final accusative suffix is required because the debts are the specific direct object of the verb ödemek (to pay).
Why doesn't the ç in borçlarını soften to a c?
Consonant softening usually happens when words ending in ç are followed by a vowel, like in the singular form borcu (its debt). However, because we added the plural suffix -lar first here, the ç is followed by the consonant l instead of a vowel, so it stays hard.
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