Breakdown of Dostluğumuza zarar vermemek üzere bu kitabı sana ödünç veriyorum.
bu
this
kitap
book
sen
you
vermek
to give
zarar vermek
to damage
üzere
on the condition that
ödünç
borrowed / on loan
dostluk
friendship
Questions & Answers about Dostluğumuza zarar vermemek üzere bu kitabı sana ödünç veriyorum.
How does vermemek üzere mean "on the condition of not"? I thought -mAk üzere meant "about to".
You are right that -mAk üzere usually means "about to". However, it has a second common use: setting a condition or a proviso. When used this way, it translates to "on the condition that" or "provided that". Here, combined with the negative infinitive vermemek, it sets the condition: "provided we do not harm".
Why does dostluğumuza take the dative case (-a) instead of the accusative case?
Can you break down the suffixes on the word dostluğumuza?
The root is dostluk (friendship). First, we add the first-person plural possessive suffix -umuz (our), which causes the final k to soften into a ğ to make dostluğumuz. Then, we add the dative case marker -a (to), resulting in dostluğumuza (to our friendship).
How does the word ödünç work with veriyorum here?
Ödünç means "loan" or "borrowed item". Turkish pairs it with helper verbs to create the action: ödünç vermek means "to lend" (literally "to give a loan"), while ödünç almak means "to borrow" (literally "to take a loan"). Since the speaker is giving the book, they use veriyorum.
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