Word
Rüzgârdan burnum sızladı ve nefessiz kaldım.
Meaning
My nose ached from the wind and I was left breathless.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Rüzgârdan burnum sızladı ve nefessiz kaldım.
ve
and
kalmak
to stay / to be left / to remain (in a state)
burun
nose
rüzgâr
wind
Questions & Answers about Rüzgârdan burnum sızladı ve nefessiz kaldım.
Why do we use the ablative case -dan in rüzgârdan here?
In Turkish, the ablative case (-dan / -den) is frequently used to show the physical or emotional cause of an action or state. Here, the wind is the direct physical cause of the nose aching, so rüzgârdan translates to "from the wind" or "because of the wind".
The word rüzgâr has a circumflex over the 'a'. Does this affect the vowel harmony for the suffix -dan?
Although the circumflex in rüzgâr tells us to pronounce the 'g' softly, this specific loanword still takes back-vowel suffixes. That is why we use -dan to make rüzgârdan, rather than switching to the front-vowel -den.
Why is it burnum instead of burunum?
This is a classic example of vowel omission. Many two-syllable Turkish words for body parts drop their second vowel when a suffix starting with a vowel is added. So, burun (nose) plus the possessive -um (my) drops the second 'u' to become burnum.
How does kaldım work in the phrase nefessiz kaldım?