Questions & Answers about Vale limuzinleri park etti.
This sentence is active. How would I change the verb to a double causative to fit this lesson's topic?
The verb here is the active park etti (parked). To make it causative (had parked), you add -tir to the auxiliary verb et-, making it park ettirdi. For the double causative, which implies another layer of delegation (e.g., had someone make the valet park them), you add -t after -tir, resulting in park ettirtti.
If I change the sentence to "I had the valet park the limousines," what happens to the word vale?
When you change an active sentence that has a direct object into a causative sentence, the original subject doing the action (the valet) takes the dative case. So "I had the valet park the limousines" becomes Limuzinleri valeye park ettirdim. The word vale becomes valeye.
Why does limuzinleri take the accusative case here?
It takes the definite accusative suffix -i (added to the plural -ler) because it refers to specific limousines: "the limousines." If the sentence was about the valet's general job and meant "The valet parked limousines" (non-specific), it would just be the bare form: Vale limuzin park etti.
Vale and limuzin are obviously borrowed words. Do they follow standard vowel harmony when adding suffixes?
Yes, they behave completely normally here. Limuzin takes the front-vowel plural suffix -ler because its final vowel is the front vowel i, forming limuzinleri. Unlike certain exceptional loanwords (like saat becoming saati instead of saatı), you don't need to memorize any special vowel harmony exceptions for these two.
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