Breakdown of Bakanlık, doktorların hastaneleri iyileştirmesi amacıyla bir bütçe ayırdı.
bir
a / an
doktor
doctor
hastane
hospital
bütçe
budget
ayırmak
to separate / to allocate / set aside
amaç
purpose
bakanlık
ministry
iyileştirmek
to improve (make better, heal)
Questions & Answers about Bakanlık, doktorların hastaneleri iyileştirmesi amacıyla bir bütçe ayırdı.
Why use amacıyla here instead of just için?
Both can express purpose, but amacıyla (or maksadıyla) is much more formal. It translates directly to "with the aim of" or "for the purpose of." Because this sentence describes an official action by a ministry (Bakanlık), using the formal amacıyla fits the context perfectly.
Why is it doktorların in the genitive case instead of just doktorlar?
When a purpose clause has a different subject than the main sentence, Turkish uses a genitive-possessive structure. The ministry is allocating the budget, but the doctors are doing the improving. Therefore, "the doctors" takes the genitive case (doktorların), and the verbal noun takes the possessive (iyileştirme-si). It literally means "with the aim of the doctors' improving."
If the ministry were doing the improving themselves, how would the sentence change?
If the subject of the main sentence and the purpose clause are the same, you don't need the genitive-possessive structure. You would just use the standard infinitive -mek / -mak. It would be: Bakanlık, hastaneleri iyileştirmek amacıyla bir bütçe ayırdı (The ministry allocated a budget with the aim of improving the hospitals).
How is the word amacıyla formed grammatically?
It is built from the noun amaç (aim). First, it takes the 3rd person possessive ending -ı to link it to the previous phrase ("its aim"), causing the ç to soften to a c (amacı). Then, we add the buffer letter -y-, and finally -la, which is the shortened form of ile (with). Together, it makes amacıyla (with its aim / with the aim of).
I know ayırmak usually means "to separate". How does it mean "allocated" here?
In Turkish, "separating" money, time, or resources for a specific purpose is the standard way to express "to allocate" or "to set aside." The phrase bütçe ayırmak is a very common fixed expression meaning "to allocate a budget."
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