Breakdown of Dünkü toplantıda, yeni kriterleri belirlemiş olan müdürü gördüm.
yeni
new
müdür
manager, director
olmak
to be
görmek
to see
toplantı
meeting
dün
yesterday
belirlemek
to determine
kriter
criterion
Questions & Answers about Dünkü toplantıda, yeni kriterleri belirlemiş olan müdürü gördüm.
Why use belirlemiş olan here instead of just the standard relative clause belirleyen?
While belirleyen can mean "who determines" or "who determined," using belirlemiş olan (verb + -mIş olan) explicitly frames the time. It emphasizes that the manager had already completed the action of determining the criteria before the meeting took place.
Why does kriterleri have the accusative -i ending if it is not the main object of the sentence?
Relative clauses act like mini-sentences. The verbal phrase belirlemiş olan comes from the transitive verb belirlemek (to determine). Since "the new criteria" is the specific direct object of that action, it still takes the accusative case (kriterleri).
I recognize dün as "yesterday", but why is it dünkü here?
The suffix -ki attaches to time words and locatives to turn them into adjectives. Because of vowel harmony with the rounded vowel in dün, it becomes -kü. It modifies toplantı to mean "yesterday's meeting" or "the meeting which was yesterday."
Both kriterleri and müdürü have the accusative case. Does a sentence often have two accusative objects?
Yes, when one is inside a relative clause and the other is in the main clause. kriterleri is the object of the relative clause (belirlemiş olan), while müdürü is the direct object of the main verb (gördüm).
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