Breakdown of Uzun süre kimyasallarla çalıştığı için, akciğerleri hasar gördü.
uzun
long / tall
çalışmak
to work / to study
ile
with / by / and (linking nouns)
için
for
süre
period
hasar görmek
to undergo / suffer (damage)
kimyasal
chemical
akciğer
lung
Questions & Answers about Uzun süre kimyasallarla çalıştığı için, akciğerleri hasar gördü.
This lesson is about using sebep olmak (to cause). How would we rewrite this sentence using that verb instead of için?
You would need to change the cause into a verbal noun and the effect into an object taking the dative case. It would be: Uzun süre kimyasallarla çalışması, akciğerlerinin hasar görmesine sebep oldu. (His working with chemicals caused his lungs to get damaged.)
Why does için take the -DIğI suffix in çalıştığı instead of the -mA verbal noun we use with sebep olmak?
When linking a factual, completed, or ongoing action to için (because), Turkish requires the factive participle -DIK (or -(y)AcAK for future). Think of it as "because of the fact that he worked." In contrast, sebep olmak requires a standard verbal noun (-mA) to represent the action itself as a noun: "caused his working."
Why use gördü (saw) in hasar gördü rather than a passive verb for "got damaged"?
While you could technically use a passive verb like hasarlandı, it is much more natural and common in Turkish to use görmek (to see) with certain nouns to express undergoing a process or receiving an effect. Hasar görmek is the standard idiom for "to get damaged", just as zarar görmek means "to get harmed."
Does uzun süre (for a long time) need a postposition like boyunca (throughout/for) after it?
Uzun süre can be used directly as a time adverb without any extra postposition, which is what happens here. Adding boyunca (uzun süre boyunca) is also perfectly correct and adds a bit more emphasis on the continuous duration ("throughout a long period"), but it is entirely optional.
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