Word
Hastanın sonunda iyileştiği çok sevindirici.
Meaning
It is very pleasing that the patient finally got better.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Hastanın sonunda iyileştiği çok sevindirici.
çok
very
iyileşmek
to recover
sonunda
finally, in the end
hasta
patient (medical)
Questions & Answers about Hastanın sonunda iyileştiği çok sevindirici.
Why doesn't iyileştiği have a case marker at the end?
It is acting as the subject of the main sentence ("The fact that the patient got better"). When a -dIk factive clause is the subject, it takes a possessive suffix to show who did the action (here, -i for his/her) but remains in the nominative or "zero" case, meaning no extra case marker is added.
Why is hasta in the genitive case (hastanın)?
In Turkish, the subject of a -dIk factive clause must take the genitive case. You can think of it literally as "The patient's finally recovering." So hasta becomes hastanın, which links directly to the possessive suffix on iyileştiği.
Could I use the verbal noun iyileşmesi here instead of iyileştiği?
Yes, you could say Hastanın sonunda iyileşmesi çok sevindirici. However, iyileştiği strongly emphasizes the factual, completed nature of the action ("the fact that he got better"), whereas iyileşmesi is slightly more general ("his getting better"). In this context, both sound perfectly natural.
How is the word sevindirici formed?
It is built from the verb sevinmek (to be glad / to rejoice). Adding the causative suffix -dir creates sevindirmek (to gladden / to please). Finally, the suffix -ici turns it into an adjective meaning "pleasing" or "causing joy."