Breakdown of O kitabı ödünç almıyorum çünkü onu yıpratmak istemiyorum.
kitap
book
o
that / he / she / it
almak
to take, to buy
istemek
to want / to require / to call for
çünkü
because
ödünç
borrowed / on loan
yıpratmak
to wear out / to tear (through use or aging)
Questions & Answers about O kitabı ödünç almıyorum çünkü onu yıpratmak istemiyorum.
This lesson is about using -mak üzere for conditions. How could I use that grammar to say 'I am borrowing that book on the condition that I don't wear it out'?
You would use the negative infinitive yıpratmamak followed by üzere to set the condition. The sentence would become: O kitabı yıpratmamak üzere ödünç alıyorum.
How does the word ödünç work in this sentence?
The word ödünç generally means 'loan' or 'borrowed thing'. In Turkish, borrowing and lending are expressed using compound verbs: you use ödünç almak (to take as a loan) for borrowing, and ödünç vermek (to give as a loan) for lending.
What is the difference between yıpratmak and yıpranmak?
Yıpranmak is intransitive and means 'to become worn out' by itself. Yıpratmak has the causative suffix -t, which makes it a transitive verb meaning 'to wear something out'. Because the speaker is the one who might wear the book out, we use the transitive yıpratmak.
Why do we see the accusative case used twice here, in kitabı and onu?
They are the specific direct objects of their respective verbs. O kitabı is the specific book being borrowed, so it takes the accusative suffix -ı. Later in the sentence, onu refers back to the book as the specific thing you do not want to wear out. Remember that when the pronoun o takes an accusative suffix, a buffer -n- is required, making it onu.
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