Word
Akıntının başladığı yerde genişçe bir mercan var.
Meaning
There is a quite wide coral where the current starts.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Akıntının başladığı yerde genişçe bir mercan var.
bir
a / an
var
there is / existent
yer
place / space / room (unoccupied space, capacity)
başlamak
to begin, to start
Questions & Answers about Akıntının başladığı yerde genişçe bir mercan var.
What does the -çe suffix do to the word geniş in this sentence?
The suffix -ce / -ca (which becomes -çe / -ça after hard consonants) acts as a softening suffix for adjectives. While geniş means 'wide', adding -çe makes it genişçe, meaning 'quite wide', 'rather wide', or 'widish'. It makes the adjective a bit more approximate or relative.
Why does akıntı (current) take the genitive suffix -nın to become akıntının?
It takes the genitive case because it is the subject of a specific type of relative clause. In Turkish, when you describe a noun using an action that has its own specific subject (the current is doing the starting), that subject takes the genitive case. This pairs with a possessive suffix on the verb, literally translating to 'the current's starting'.
How does başladığı work here, and why does it end in -ı?
This is the verb başlamak (to start) turned into an adjective using the participle suffix -dık. The -ı at the end is the 3rd person possessive suffix, which pairs with akıntının ('the current's starting'). The k from -dık softens to ğ because it is followed by a vowel. Together with yerde (at the place), başladığı yerde means 'at the place where it starts'.