Word
Soy ağacımız bizim en büyük mirasımız.
Meaning
Our family tree is our greatest heritage.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Soy ağacımız bizim en büyük mirasımız.
The dictionary word for "family tree" is soy ağacı. Where did the ı at the end go when we made it soy ağacımız?
Soy ağacı is a compound noun made of soy (lineage) and ağaç (tree), linked by the 3rd-person possessive suffix -ı. When you want to add a 1st-person suffix to say "our" family tree, you don't stack them. Instead, you drop the default 3rd-person -ı and attach your new suffix -ımız directly to the root, giving us soy ağacımız.
Do we really need the word bizim here if the other words already end in -mız?
Strictly speaking, no. The -mız suffixes on ağacımız and mirasımız already make it clear who the tree and heritage belong to. Including bizim is optional, but it adds emphasis, much like stressing the word "our" in English.
Why is it spelled ağacımız with a c instead of the ç found in ağaç?
This is a quick reminder of consonant mutation. When the root word ağaç (tree) takes a suffix starting with a vowel (like -ımız), the voiceless ç softens to a voiced c to make it flow better in speech.
There is no verb in this sentence. Should there be a -dır at the end to mean "is"?