Breakdown of Kilo verme saplantısı hasta olma eğilimini artırıyor.
hasta olmak
to fall ill, to get sick
kilo vermek
to lose weight
artırmak
to increase (transitive
saplantı
obsession
eğilim
tendency
Questions & Answers about Kilo verme saplantısı hasta olma eğilimini artırıyor.
How does the grammar behind kilo verme saplantısı and hasta olma eğilimi work?
This sentence demonstrates how to link an abstract noun (saplantı, eğilim) with an action. To express "the obsession with [action]" or "tendency to [action]", Turkish creates a noun compound. The action takes the short verbal noun form (-mA), and the abstract noun gets the 3rd person possessive suffix (-(s)I). Literally: "losing-weight its-obsession" (kilo verme saplantı-sı) and "becoming-sick its-tendency" (hasta olma eğilim-i).
Why don't we add a possessive ending to the verbal nouns themselves, like kilo vermesi?
Because these clauses describe general, unfulfilled concepts. We use the bare short verbal noun (verme, olma) without a possessive suffix when referring to an abstract idea. If we wanted to talk about a specific person's factual action (like "the fact that he lost weight"), we would add the possessive directly to the verbal noun: kilo vermesi.
Why does eğilimini have the -ni suffix at the end, but saplantısı just ends in -sı?
Kilo verme saplantısı is the subject of the sentence, so it stays in the nominative (dictionary) case. However, hasta olma eğilimi is the definite direct object receiving the action of the verb, so it needs the accusative case -i. When adding any case ending after a 3rd person possessive suffix, you must insert the buffer letter -n-, giving us eğilim-i-n-i.
What is the difference between artıyor and artırıyor?
Artmak means "to increase" but it is intransitive, meaning it doesn't take an object (e.g., "Prices are increasing"). Since this sentence has a direct object—the obsession is increasing the tendency—we must use the causative form artırmak (to make something increase, or to raise).
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