Breakdown of Gelecek aydan itibaren gece vardiyasında uzaktan çalışabilir miyim?
çalışmak
to work / to study
gelecek
next
ay
month
gece
night
Questions & Answers about Gelecek aydan itibaren gece vardiyasında uzaktan çalışabilir miyim?
How does Gelecek aydan itibaren translate to "Starting from next month"?
The word itibaren means "starting from" or "as of." It always requires the noun before it to take the ablative case (-DAn, meaning "from"). So ay (month) becomes aydan. Together with Gelecek (next), we get "Starting from next month."
Why does uzaktan have the -tan ending here? Does it literally mean "from far"?
Yes, literally it means "from afar." Uzak means "far," and adding the ablative case -tan turns it into an adverb. In a professional context, uzaktan çalışmak is the standard way to say "to work remotely" or "to telecommute."
Why is there an -sında on the end of vardiyasında?
This is a compound noun with a location marker. "Night shift" is gece vardiyası, where the -sı links "shift" to "night." To say "on" or "at" the night shift, we add the locative case -da. When adding a case ending to a possessive suffix like -sı, we must use the buffer letter -n-, resulting in vardiyasında.
Can you break down the endings on çalışabilir miyim?
The root is çalış (work). The -abil suffix combined with the aorist tense marker -ir adds the meaning of "can" or "able to." Finally, the separate question particle mi gets the personal ending -yim (I), making it "can I work?".