Breakdown of Kötü havanın görünürlüğü azalttığını unutmamalısın.
kötü
bad
unutmak
to forget
hava
weather
azaltmak
to reduce
görünürlük
visibility
Questions & Answers about Kötü havanın görünürlüğü azalttığını unutmamalısın.
Why does the sentence use havanın (genitive) instead of just hava?
This is because the sentence contains an embedded clause: "that bad weather decreases visibility." In Turkish, the subject of a nominalized embedded clause takes the genitive case (here, -nın). This pairs with the possessive suffix on the embedded verb (azalttığını), acting much like saying "bad weather's decreasing" in English.
Can you break down all the suffixes on azalttığını?
Certainly! The verb root is azalt (to reduce). To this, we add -tık (the nominalizer meaning "the fact that"), which softens to -tığ-. The first -ı is the 3rd-person possessive suffix that links back to the genitive subject havanın. Then comes a buffer -n-, and the final -ı is the accusative case suffix, because this entire embedded clause is the direct object of the main verb unutmamalısın (you must not forget).
How is the verb azaltmak formed?
It is built from the adjective az (little or less). The suffix -al turns it into the intransitive verb azalmak (to decrease or become less). Then, the causative suffix -t makes it the transitive verb azaltmak (to make something decrease, or to reduce). Because it is transitive, it can take a direct object like görünürlüğü.
Why does görünürlüğü end with a -ğ-?
The base noun for visibility is görünürlük. Because "visibility" is the specific thing being decreased, it acts as the direct object of the embedded verb and requires the accusative case suffix -ü. When you add a vowel suffix to a word ending in -k, that -k undergoes consonant mutation and softens into a -ğ-.
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