Word
Çete, dünkü manşeti atanları gizlice tehdit etti.
Meaning
The gang secretly threatened those who wrote yesterday's headline.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Çete, dünkü manşeti atanları gizlice tehdit etti.
dün
yesterday
atmak
to throw / to tie (a knot) / to lay (a foundation) / to put (a signature)
gizlice
secretly
tehdit etmek
to threaten
Questions & Answers about Çete, dünkü manşeti atanları gizlice tehdit etti.
Why is the verb atmak (to throw) used here for "wrote"?
In Turkish journalism, the established collocation for "writing a headline" is manşet atmak (literally, "to throw a headline"). Therefore, manşeti atanlar means "the ones who wrote the headline".
Can you break down the suffixes on atanları?
Sure! It starts with the verb root at- (throw/write). We add the subject participle -an to get atan (the one who writes). Then -lar makes it plural (atanlar, those who write). Finally, the accusative case -ı is added because these specific people are the direct object of the verb tehdit etti (threatened).
Since the suffix -ki normally doesn't change for vowel harmony, why is it dünkü (yesterday's) instead of dünki?
The suffix -ki, which attaches to time and place words to form adjectives, is usually frozen as -ki (like in yarınki or evdeki). However, it adapts to vowel harmony for a few specific time words: dün (dünkü), bugün (bugünkü), and gün (günkü).
How is the word gizlice formed?