Breakdown of Sayesinde kaynağı bulduğumuz dipnotu kaybettim.
bulmak
to find
kaybetmek
to lose
kaynak
source
sayesinde
thanks to (positive attribution)
dipnot
footnote
Questions & Answers about Sayesinde kaynağı bulduğumuz dipnotu kaybettim.
How does sayesinde work together with bulduğumuz to mean "thanks to which we found"?
When creating a relative clause with a postposition, Turkish uses the postposition in its 3rd-person form with a possessive suffix. Sayesinde means "thanks to it". It sits inside the relative clause acting as a placeholder for the noun being described (dipnot). The literal structure is: [thanks to it] + [the source] + [that we found] + [the footnote].
Why is sayesinde placed at the very beginning of the sentence rather than next to dipnotu?
Relative clauses in Turkish keep the word order of a standard sentence. If this were an independent sentence, you would say Sayesinde kaynağı bulduk (Thanks to it, we found the source). To turn this whole phrase into an adjective describing the footnote, you simply change the verb to bulduğumuz and place the target noun (dipnotu) right after it.
Why are both kaynağı and dipnotu in the accusative case?
Because they are direct objects belonging to two different verbs. Kaynağı (the source) is the object of the verb inside the relative clause, bulduğumuz (that we found). Meanwhile, dipnotu (the footnote) is the object of the main verb at the end of the sentence, kaybettim (I lost).
What is the literal breakdown of the word sayesinde?
Saye is a word of Persian origin meaning "shadow" or "protection". It is combined with the 3rd-person singular possessive -si (its), the buffer letter -n-, and the locative suffix -de (in). So sayesinde literally translates to "in its shadow", which is how it came to mean "thanks to it" or "by means of it".
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