Breakdown of Kendi jantlarının civataları ve somunları çok eski, onları değiştirmelisin.
o
that / he / she / it
çok
very
ve
and
eski
old
kendi
self
değiştirmek
to change
jant
rim
civata
bolt
somun
nut (hardware)
Questions & Answers about Kendi jantlarının civataları ve somunları çok eski, onları değiştirmelisin.
How do we know kendi means "your own" here when it doesn't have a personal suffix like kendin?
When kendi is used as an emphatic modifier right before a noun, it acts like a plain adjective meaning "own" and does not take a suffix itself. The person it refers to is revealed by the possessive suffix on the noun it modifies. Here, the noun has the 2nd-person singular suffix -ın (your), so kendi automatically takes on the meaning of "your own".
Can you break down the double -ın suffix at the end of jantlarının?
Yes! The word is built from jant (rim) + -lar (plural). The first -ın is the 2nd-person possessive suffix, making it jantların (your rims). The second -ın is the genitive case suffix (meaning "of"), which links "your rims" to their parts. Together, jantlarının means "of your rims" or "your rims'".
Do both civataları and somunları need the possessive suffix -ı, or could we just put it on the last word?
In Turkish, when a genitive noun (like jantlarının) "owns" multiple items connected by ve (and), you generally must attach the corresponding possessive suffix to every owned item in the list. That's why both civatalar (bolts) and somunlar (nuts) take the 3rd-person possessive suffix -ı.
Why do we use the verb değiştirmek here instead of just değişmek?
değişmek is an intransitive verb, meaning something changes by itself (like the weather or a person's mood). To say that you are changing or replacing something else, you must add the causative suffix -tir to make the transitive verb değiştirmek. Because you are actively replacing the bolts and nuts, değiştirmelisin is required.
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