Breakdown of Sözcü, protestocunun sorduğu soruyu cevaplamadı.
soru
question
sormak
to ask
cevaplamak
to answer
protestocu
protester
sözcü
spokesperson
Questions & Answers about Sözcü, protestocunun sorduğu soruyu cevaplamadı.
This lesson is about -mAktA olan, so why does this sentence use sorduğu instead?
While -mAktA olan describes an ongoing, continuous action, this sentence refers to a specific question that was already asked. For specific past or present relative clauses where the subject doing the action is stated, we use the -DIK participle, which gives us sorduğu.
Why does protestocu have the -nun suffix added to it?
In Turkish relative clauses made with the -DIK suffix, the person doing the action takes the genitive case, which is -nun here. You can think of the phrase literally as the protester's asked question.
Let's break down sorduğu. What suffixes are attached to the verb sormak here?
We add the relative participle -dık, which mutates to -duğ because of vowel harmony and consonant softening. Finally, we add the third person possessive suffix -u to agree with the subject of the clause, protestocunun.
Why is it soruyu and not just soru?
The verb cevaplamak requires its specific direct object to take the accusative case. Because this is a specific question, the noun soru gets the buffer letter -y- and the accusative suffix -u.
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