Breakdown of Kürsüye çıkarken kekelemekten korkuyorum.
korkmak
to fear
çıkmak
to go out / to leave / to exit / to break out / to arise (of a storm)
kürsü
podium / rostrum
kekelemek
to stutter
Questions & Answers about Kürsüye çıkarken kekelemekten korkuyorum.
Why does kekelemek (to stutter) have the -ten ending here?
In Turkish, the verb korkmak (to fear / to be afraid) always requires the thing you fear to take the ablative case (the -dAn ending). To say "I am afraid of stuttering," you literally say "I am afraid from stuttering." We take the infinitive kekelemek and add the ablative ending. Because kekelemek ends in a hard consonant ('k'), the ending becomes -ten.
How is the word çıkarken formed, and why is there an -ar before -ken?
Çıkarken translates to "while going up." When you attach the suffix -ken (while) to a verb, it usually cannot attach directly to the bare verb root; it needs a tense marker first. The most common choice is the aorist (broad present) tense. Here, it is the verb root çık- (go up) + -ar (aorist marker) + -ken (while).
Why is kürsü (podium) in the dative case (kürsüye)?
The verb çıkmak can mean "to go out," but here it means "to go up," "to climb," or "to step onto." When you specify the destination you are stepping onto or climbing up to (like a stage, podium, or stairs), Turkish uses the dative case (direction towards: -(y)A). Therefore, kürsüye çıkarken literally means "while going up to the podium."