Word
Patrona göre, işçileri sömürerek verimliliği artıracaklardı.
Meaning
According to the boss, they were going to increase productivity by exploiting the workers.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Patrona göre, işçileri sömürerek verimliliği artıracaklardı.
patron
boss
göre
according to / compared to
işçi
worker
artırmak
to increase (transitive)
Questions & Answers about Patrona göre, işçileri sömürerek verimliliği artıracaklardı.
Why is the suffix -erek used in sömürerek instead of the lesson's target suffix -casına?
The suffix -erek describes the actual, literal method used to achieve something, translating to "by exploiting". If we used sömürürcesine (using the -casına suffix), it would mean they increased productivity acting "as if they were exploiting" the workers, implying a hypothetical or extreme manner rather than the literal, factual method they employed.
The root verb for "increase" is artmak. Why does it become artırmak here?
The verb artmak is intransitive, meaning something increases on its own (like prices or temperature). To say that someone increases something else, we must use the causative form. Adding the -ır suffix turns artmak into the transitive verb artırmak (to raise or to make something increase). This is why it can take the direct object verimliliği.
Let's break down the word artıracaklardı. Why is the past tense ending -dı at the very end after the plural -lar?
In Turkish, the 3rd person plural suffix -lar or -ler usually attaches directly to the primary tense marker (here, the future -acak). So we get artıracaklar (they will increase) followed by the past tense marker -dı to create the "future in the past" meaning (they were going to increase). Saying artıracaktılar is also grammatically correct, but artıracaklardı is much more common in everyday Turkish.