Breakdown of Çevre kirliliği arttığından beri büyük seller meydana geliyor.
büyük
big
çevre
environment
beri
since
artmak
to increase
meydana gelmek
to occur / to happen
kirlilik
pollution
sel
flood
Questions & Answers about Çevre kirliliği arttığından beri büyük seller meydana geliyor.
How is arttığından beri constructed to mean "since it increased"?
This uses the specific structure for "since doing something". We take the verb root art- (to increase), add the participle -tık, and attach the 3rd person possessive -ı because "pollution" is the subject that increased. Finally, we add the ablative suffix -ndan and the postposition beri (since).
Why does the suffix on the verb start with a "t" (-tığ-) instead of a "d" (-dığ-)?
This happens because of consonant assimilation. The verb root art- ends in a hard, unvoiced consonant (t). As a result, the standard -dık suffix changes to -tık to match. After that, the k softens to ğ because it is followed by a vowel.
Why is the word for pollution kirliliği here instead of just kirlilik?
It is part of a noun compound: çevre kirliliği (environmental pollution). When you pair two nouns to create a new concept and the first one doesn't take a genitive suffix, the second noun must take a possessive suffix. Kirlilik gets the 3rd person suffix -i, causing its final k to soften into a ğ.
What is the literal translation of meydana geliyor?
The noun meydan means a public square or open space, and -a is the dative suffix meaning "to". So meydana gelmek literally translates as "to come to the square". It is a very common idiom in Turkish meaning "to occur", "to happen", or "to arise".
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