Breakdown of Motoru bozulan uçağın irtifa kaybedeceğini biliyoruz.
bilmek
to know
uçak
airplane
motor
engine
kaybetmek
to lose
bozulmak
to break down / to spoil
irtifa
altitude
Questions & Answers about Motoru bozulan uçağın irtifa kaybedeceğini biliyoruz.
Why does uçak take the genitive suffix to become uçağın?
It is the subject of the embedded clause 'that the airplane will lose altitude.' In Turkish, when a clause is nominalized using suffixes like -DIk or -(y)AcAk, its subject takes the genitive case (-In). The verb then takes a matching possessive suffix. You can think of it literally as 'We know the airplane's future losing of altitude.'
How does motoru bozulan translate to 'whose engine broke down'?
Turkish doesn't have a single word for 'whose.' Instead, it uses a subject relative clause (-An) combined with a possessed noun. Motoru means 'its engine,' and bozulan means 'that broke down.' Placed before uçağın, the whole phrase motoru bozulan uçağın literally means 'the airplane that its engine broke down.'
Why is there an accusative suffix (-ni) at the end of kaybedeceğini?
The main verb of the sentence is biliyoruz (we know). The accusative case marks the entire embedded clause (uçağın irtifa kaybedeceği) as the specific direct object of the verb 'to know.' It tells us exactly what is being known.
Can you break down the stack of suffixes on kaybedeceğini?
It starts with the verb kaybet (to lose). Then we add the future nominalizer -(y)ecek (with the t softening to d, and k to ğ). Next is the 3rd person singular possessive -i, which links back to the genitive subject uçağın. Finally, we add the buffer -n- and the accusative case -i to make it the object of the main verb.
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