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Dün aldığın teknolojik cihazları güncelledin mi?

Dün aldığın teknolojik cihazları güncelledin mi?
Did you update the technological devices that you bought yesterday?
From Lesson 421:Topic shifting (-(y)A gelince)·Turkish

Questions & Answers about Dün aldığın teknolojik cihazları güncelledin mi?

Since this lesson is about -(y)A gelince, how would we use it here to say 'As for the technological devices you bought yesterday...'?
You would take the entire noun phrase and add the dative suffix -a to the final word, followed by gelince. It becomes: Dün aldığın teknolojik cihazlara gelince...
Why do we use aldığın here instead of alan?
We use the object relative participle -dık because the noun being described (cihazları, the devices) is the object of the action, not the subject. You bought them. It takes the possessive ending -ın to show that you did the buying (literally, 'your bought devices'). If the noun was doing the action (e.g., 'the man who bought the devices'), you would use the subject participle alan.
How is the verb güncelledin built from its root?
It originates from the adjective güncel, which means 'current' or 'up-to-date'. The suffix -le is used to turn nouns and adjectives into verbs, creating güncellemek (to update). Then we add the past tense -di and the 'you' ending -n.
Why does cihazları end with -ı?
The -ı is the definite accusative case marker. It is required here because 'the devices you bought yesterday' acts as a specific, defined direct object of the verb güncelledin (did you update).

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