Breakdown of Öğretmen kolyeye elmaslardan ve incilerden ekliyor.
öğretmen
teacher
ve
and
eklemek
to add
kolye
necklace
inci
pearl
elmas
diamond
Questions & Answers about Öğretmen kolyeye elmaslardan ve incilerden ekliyor.
Why do elmaslardan and incilerden have the ablative (-dan/-den) suffix? Shouldn't they be accusative since they are the objects being added?
Normally, specific direct objects take the accusative case (like elmasları, meaning the diamonds). But here we are using the partitive ablative. By attaching -dan/-den (literally 'from'), it shows the teacher is adding some of the diamonds and pearls from a larger pile, rather than all of them.
If I wanted to say the teacher is adding all the diamonds and pearls, how would the sentence change?
You would drop the partitive ablative (-dan/-den) and use the specific accusative case (-ı/-i/-u/-ü) instead. The sentence would become: Öğretmen kolyeye elmasları ve incileri ekliyor.
Why is the verb spelled ekliyor? Isn't the dictionary form eklemek (to add)?
Yes, the verb stem is ekle-. However, Turkish has a rule called vowel narrowing. When a verb stem ends in a wide vowel like -a or -e and you add the present continuous suffix -yor, that final vowel narrows. Here, the e in ekle- narrows to an i, making it ekliyor instead of ekleyor.
What does the -ye suffix do in the word kolyeye?
The base word is kolye (necklace). The verb eklemek requires the dative case (-a/-e) to show the destination—where you are adding the items to. Because kolye ends in a vowel, we must insert the buffer letter -y- before adding the dative -e, resulting in kolyeye.
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