Word
Bakan, müttefiklerin ülkeden çekileceği hakkında konuşmak istemedi.
Meaning
The minister did not want to speak about the allies withdrawing from the country.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Bakan, müttefiklerin ülkeden çekileceği hakkında konuşmak istemedi.
konuşmak
to speak / to talk
istemek
to want / to require / to call for
ülke
country
hakkında
about, concerning
Questions & Answers about Bakan, müttefiklerin ülkeden çekileceği hakkında konuşmak istemedi.
Why does the verb çekilmek take the form çekileceği here?
To say "about the allies withdrawing" (which implies a planned or future action in this context), the verb çekilmek (to withdraw) is turned into a noun clause. We add the future nominalizer -(y)ecek (which becomes -(y)eceğ- due to consonant mutation) and the 3rd-person possessive suffix -i. This connects it to the genitive subject müttefiklerin (the allies'), literally making it "the allies' future withdrawing".
Since müttefiklerin (the allies) is plural, why doesn't the clause use the plural possessive -leri (çekilecekleri)?
In Turkish, when a plural, third-person subject is explicitly stated in the sentence (like the -ler in müttefiklerin), the plural marker on the nominalized verb is often dropped. Using the singular possessive -i (çekileceği) sounds very natural and avoids repetition, though çekilecekleri hakkında would also be grammatically correct.
Could I use dair or ilişkin instead of hakkında to mean "about"?