Breakdown of Şehirde egzoz gazı solumak, insanların erken ölmesine yol açar.
şehir
city
insan
person
erken
early
gaz
gas
Questions & Answers about Şehirde egzoz gazı solumak, insanların erken ölmesine yol açar.
Why is it ölmesine instead of just ölmeye?
Yol açmak (to lead to / cause) requires the dative case (-e). Because we are saying it causes people to die (literally the dying of people), we use a possessive construction: insanların ölmesi (people's dying). We then add the dative case suffix because of yol açar, requiring a buffer -n-, resulting in ölmesine.
Why does inhaling use the infinitive solumak, but die uses the verbal noun form ölmesine?
Solumak is used here because it is the general subject of the sentence: inhaling exhaust gas. It does not belong to a specific person in this context, so the dictionary form (-mAk) works perfectly as a noun. However, the dying belongs to specific actors (people), so we need the -mA verbal noun with possessive endings (insanların ölmesi) to show who is dying.
Could I use sebep olur instead of yol açar here?
Yes, absolutely. Yol açmak (literally to open a road) and sebep olmak (to be a cause) are practically synonymous when talking about causing an outcome. Both take the dative case, so the sentence could perfectly end as erken ölmesine sebep olur. Yol açmak is often preferred for systemic causes or chain reactions.
Why is the final verb yol açar (aorist tense) instead of (present continuous)?