Word
Mimar, yıpranmış ve aşınmış kalıntıları inceliyor.
Meaning
The architect is inspecting the worn out and eroded ruins.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Mimar, yıpranmış ve aşınmış kalıntıları inceliyor.
ve
and
incelemek
to examine
mimar
architect
yıpranmak
to be worn out
Questions & Answers about Mimar, yıpranmış ve aşınmış kalıntıları inceliyor.
How is the -mış suffix being used in yıpranmış and aşınmış?
In this lesson, -mış is used to create past participles that act as adjectives. Instead of acting as past tense verbs like 'they wore out', they describe the noun kalıntıları. They translate to 'worn out' and 'eroded', describing a state that resulted from a past action.
Why does kalıntıları have an extra -ı at the end, and why don't the adjectives have it too?
The verb incelemek (to inspect) acts on a specific direct object ('the ruins'), so the noun needs the accusative case suffix -ı. In Turkish, case endings are only attached to the noun (kalıntıları), never to the adjectives (yıpranmış and aşınmış) that describe it.
The dictionary form of the verb is incelemek. Why is it spelled inceliyor instead of inceleyor?
When you add the present continuous suffix -iyor to a verb stem that ends in a vowel (like incele-), the final vowel drops. The e disappears, leaving incel-, and then we add -iyor.
Both yıpranmış and aşınmış contain the letter -n- right before the suffix. What does this do?