Word
Asi kardeşin, bulaşıkları yıkaması şartıyla cezalardan birinden muaf olabilir.
Meaning
Your rebellious sibling can be exempt from one of the punishments on the condition that he washes the dishes.
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Breakdown of Asi kardeşin, bulaşıkları yıkaması şartıyla cezalardan birinden muaf olabilir.
olmak
to be
yıkamak
to wash
kardeş
sibling
biri
someone / one (of them)
Questions & Answers about Asi kardeşin, bulaşıkları yıkaması şartıyla cezalardan birinden muaf olabilir.
How does the grammar of yıkaması şartıyla work in this sentence?
It uses the verbal noun yıkama (washing) plus the 3rd person possessive suffix -sı (his/her), followed by şartıyla (on the condition of). Literally, it means 'on the condition of his washing'. If the condition applied generally without specifying who performs it, we would use the infinitive yıkamak şartıyla instead.
Why are there two ablative (-den/-dan) endings so close together in cezalardan birinden?
They serve two different grammatical functions. The first one in cezalardan acts as a partitive, meaning 'out of' or 'among' the punishments. The second one in birinden (from one) is required by the adjective muaf (exempt), which always takes the ablative case to show what someone is exempt from.
Where does the -n- come from in the word birinden?
It is a buffer letter. The word is biri (one of them), which ends with the 3rd person possessive suffix -i. When adding a case ending like the ablative -den to a 3rd person possessive, Turkish strictly requires the buffer consonant -n-, resulting in birinden.
Why isn't it Asi kardeşinin (with a genitive ending) to grammatically match the possessive in yıkaması?