Breakdown of Ebeveynler, haber vermek şartıyla ergen çocuklarının dışarı çıkmasına izin verir.
çocuk
child
çıkmak
to go out / to leave / to exit / to break out / to arise (of a storm)
dışarı
outside
izin vermek
to allow
haber vermek
to inform
şartıyla
on the condition that
ergen
teenager
ebeveyn
parent
Questions & Answers about Ebeveynler, haber vermek şartıyla ergen çocuklarının dışarı çıkmasına izin verir.
Why do we use the infinitive haber vermek before şartıyla instead of a verbal noun like haber vermeleri?
Using the dictionary infinitive (-mAk) before şartıyla expresses a general condition: "on the condition of giving notice." Even though it is the teens who must give notice, you do not always need a personal possessive suffix if the logical doer is obvious. If you wanted to explicitly say "on the condition that they give notice," you could use the verbal noun instead: haber vermeleri şartıyla. Both are perfectly natural here.
Why does çıkmasına end with the dative case -a?
The verb izin vermek (to give permission / to let) dictates this. It requires the dative case for the specific action or thing being permitted. Because the parents are allowing the act of "going out," the verbal noun phrase must take the dative: çıkmasına (to their going out).
Why is there a genitive suffix on çocuklarının?
It serves as the subject of the verbal noun çıkması (going out). In Turkish, when an entire clause is turned into a noun phrase, the "doer" of the action takes the genitive case. Literally, this translates as "their teenage children's going out."
Let's break down the suffixes on çıkmasına. What exactly is happening there?
The root is çık (go out). We add -ma to create the verbal noun, followed by the possessive -sı to link it to the children (their going out). Then we use the buffer -n- to attach the dative case -a, which is required by the main verb izin vermek.
Why isn't there a directional suffix on dışarı (like dışarıya)?
With common directional words like dışarı (outside), içeri (inside), aşağı (down), and yukarı (up), the dative suffix is usually dropped when they appear directly before a verb of motion like çıkmak or girmek. Saying dışarıya çıkmasına is grammatically correct, but the bare form dışarı çıkmasına is much more common in everyday Turkish.
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