Breakdown of Senin zekân sayesinde problemi çözdük ama onun dikkatsizliği yüzünden zaman kaybettik.
o
that / he / she / it
sen
you
problem
problem
zaman
time
kaybetmek
to lose
ama
but
çözmek
to solve
zekâ
intelligence (mental capacity)
sayesinde
thanks to (positive attribution)
yüzünden
because of (negative cause)
dikkatsizlik
carelessness
Questions & Answers about Senin zekân sayesinde problemi çözdük ama onun dikkatsizliği yüzünden zaman kaybettik.
How do the grammar structures for sayesinde and yüzünden work in this sentence?
Both postpositions require a possessive structure. You can attach them directly to a pronoun in the genitive case (like senin sayesinde meaning 'thanks to you'). But here, they are attached to full possessive noun phrases: senin zekân (your intelligence) and onun dikkatsizliği (his carelessness). Notice that sayesinde is used for the positive outcome, while yüzünden is used for the negative one.
Why does problemi have an ending, but zaman does not?
Problemi takes the specific accusative ending -i because it is a specific, known object in this context ('the problem'). Zaman is used generally here ('we lost time', not 'the time'), so it stays in its bare dictionary form without an ending.
What are the suffixes on the word dikkatsizliği?
It starts with dikkat (attention). Adding -siz makes the adjective dikkatsiz (careless), and -lik turns it into the noun dikkatsizlik (carelessness). Finally, because it belongs to onun (his), it takes the possessive suffix -i. When this vowel is added, the final k softens to ğ.
Why is kaybettik written as one word instead of kayıp ettik?
When the noun kayıp (loss) combines with the helper verb etmek (to do/make), two things happen to make it easier to say: the ı drops out (vowel elision), and the p changes to a b. Because of these sound changes, it must be written together as the single word kaybettik.
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