Learn Turkish: Biyologlar rotasını takip etmemiz için kurda bir verici taktılar. - The biologists attached a transmitter to the wolf for us to track its route.

We use the plain infinitive -mek için when the person doing the action is the same in both parts of the sentence. Here, the biologists (biyologlar) attached the transmitter, but we are the ones doing the tracking. To show this change of subject, we use the verbal noun etme and add the possessive ending -miz (our), literally meaning "for our tracking".

Can you break down the suffixes on rotasını?

It starts with rota (route). First, we add the 3rd-person possessive -sı to mean "its route" (the wolf's route). Then, because "its route" is the specific direct object of our tracking (takip etmemiz), it needs the accusative case. We add the buffer -n- followed by the accusative -ı, giving us rotasını.

Why is it kurda instead of "kurta"?

The base word is kurt (wolf). Because the transmitter is attached to the wolf, we add the dative case ending -a. When a suffix starting with a vowel is added to a noun ending in p, ç, t, or k, that final consonant usually softens. Here, the t changes to a d, resulting in kurda.

How is the word verici (transmitter) formed?