Breakdown of Onun zekâsı sayesinde kaçış oyununu bitirdik.
o
that / he / she / it
oyun
game
bitirmek
to finish (something)
zekâ
intelligence (mental capacity)
sayesinde
thanks to (positive attribution)
kaçış
escape
Questions & Answers about Onun zekâsı sayesinde kaçış oyununu bitirdik.
Why use sayesinde here instead of yüzünden?
While both words generally mean "because of," sayesinde has a strictly positive meaning ("thanks to"). If you used yüzünden, it would sound like a complaint, as if you were blaming his intelligence for something going wrong!
Why is it Onun zekâsı and not just Onun zekâ?
Postpositions like sayesinde and yüzünden require a full possessive construction. You are linking "his" (Onun) with "intelligence" (zekâ). Therefore, zekâ must take the 3rd-person possessive suffix -sı to complete the pairing.
Why does oyununu end with two -u vowels?
It's a combination of a noun compound and an accusative case marker. The first -u creates the noun compound kaçış oyunu (escape game). The second -u is the accusative case suffix, marking the game as the specific direct object of the verb. The -n- in the middle is just a buffer letter.
How is the word kaçış formed?
It comes from the verb kaçmak (to run away, to escape). Adding the -ış suffix turns the verb into a verbal noun, representing the act of doing the verb—so kaçış means "the act of escaping" or "escape."
Could I say oyununu bittik instead of bitirdik?
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