Breakdown of Bu niteliği kazanmış olan adaylar yarın başvuracak.
bu
this
olmak
to be
yarın
tomorrow
kazanmak
to earn / to win
aday
candidate
başvurmak
to apply (for a job, etc.)
nitelik
qualification
Questions & Answers about Bu niteliği kazanmış olan adaylar yarın başvuracak.
Why do we use kazanmış olan instead of just kazanan here?
While kazanan means 'who gain' or 'who are gaining,' using kazanmış olan explicitly shows that the gaining happened in the past, before the applying. The structure verb + -mIş olan acts exactly like the English present perfect ('who have gained'), highlighting a completed action whose result is a current condition for the candidates.
Why is nitelik (qualification) in the accusative case as niteliği?
Even though it is embedded inside a relative clause, the verb kazanmak (to gain) still requires its direct object. Because the object is specific—indicated by the word Bu (this)—it must take the specific accusative suffix -i (which also softens the final k to ğ).
Should we say kazanmış olanlar since the candidates (adaylar) are plural?
No. In this sentence, kazanmış olan acts as an adjective phrase modifying adaylar. In Turkish, modifiers do not take plural suffixes to agree with the noun they modify. You would only use kazanmış olanlar if you dropped the word adaylar entirely to mean 'those who have gained'.
Since adaylar (candidates) is plural, why isn't the final verb pluralized as başvuracaklar?
In Turkish, when a plural human subject is explicitly stated in the sentence (like adaylar), making the verb plural is optional. It is very common and natural to leave the verb in the singular form (başvuracak), though başvuracaklar would also be grammatically correct.
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