Breakdown of Önce evrakları ayrıştıralım ve sınıflandıralım.
ve
and
önce
before / first / firstly
evrak
document / paperwork (official papers)
sınıflandırmak
to classify
ayrıştırmak
to sort out (separate into parts)
Questions & Answers about Önce evrakları ayrıştıralım ve sınıflandıralım.
How is the verb ayrıştıralım formed, and how is it different from just using ayıralım (let's separate)?
It starts with the root ayır- (to separate). Adding the reciprocal/collective suffix -ış makes it ayrışmak (to separate into parts/decompose)—notice that the second 'ı' drops out. Then, the causative suffix -tır is added to make ayrıştırmak (to cause to separate into parts / to sort out). While ayıralım just means 'let's separate', ayrıştıralım specifically emphasizes sorting a mixed group into its constituent parts.
What is the word-building logic behind sınıflandıralım?
It is built from the noun sınıf (class or category). The suffix -lan turns it into the verb sınıflanmak (to become categorized), and the causative suffix -dır turns it into sınıflandırmak (to assign into categories / to classify). Finally, the 1st-person plural optative ending -alım makes it 'let's classify'.
I thought evrak was originally a plural word. Why does it take the plural suffix -lar in evrakları?
You are correct that historically, evrak is the Arabic plural of the word for 'leaf' or 'paper'. However, in modern Turkish, evrak has been fully adopted as a singular noun meaning 'document'. To talk about multiple documents, you must use the standard Turkish plural suffix to make evraklar, followed here by the accusative case -ı (evrakları) because they are the specific direct objects of the verbs.
This lesson focuses on the bare verb + -(y)AcAk pattern to describe what something is for. How would we use that grammar to say 'documents to sort'?
To describe an object by what needs to be done to it, Turkish heavily favors using the passive form of the verb before -acak. You would take ayrıştırmak, make it passive (ayrıştırılmak), and add the future participle to get ayrıştırılacak evraklar (documents to sort / documents to be sorted).
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