Breakdown of Almamam gereken yasaklı takviyeler ve besinler var.
var
there is / existent
ve
and
almak
to take, to buy
gerekmek
to be necessary / to be needed
yasaklı
banned
takviye
supplement
besin
nutrient
Questions & Answers about Almamam gereken yasaklı takviyeler ve besinler var.
How do the suffixes in almamam work to mean "that I must not take"?
It breaks down as al (take) + -ma (negative marker: not) + -ma (verbal noun: taking) + -m (my). Literally, it means "my not taking". When followed by gereken (the adjective form of "necessary"), the full phrase almamam gereken translates to "which it is necessary that I don't take" or simply "that I must not take".
I thought yasak already meant "forbidden". Why use yasaklı here?
While both mean "banned" or "forbidden", they have a slight nuance. Yasak is typically used for rules or actions (like "Smoking is forbidden"). Yasaklı (literally "having a ban") is used to describe specific physical items, websites, or people that are placed on a restricted list. For things like "banned substances" or "banned supplements", yasaklı is the natural choice.
Could I use the "must" suffix -malı here and say almamalı olduğum instead?
You could piece that together grammatically, but it sounds quite clunky and unnatural. When turning an obligation into a relative clause (e.g., changing "I must take it" to "the thing that I must take"), Turkish native speakers almost exclusively use this [verb]-mAm gereken structure rather than trying to force -malı into a modifier.
Does the phrase almamam gereken yasaklı describe just the supplements, or the nutrients too?
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