Learn Turkish: Yani, bütün vazifem sabahtan akşama kadar evrak kaşelemekten ibaret. - In other words, my whole duty consists of stamping documents from morning to evening.

Yani, bütün vazifem sabahtan akşama kadar evrak kaşelemekten ibaret.

In other words, my whole duty consists of stamping documents from morning to evening.

Breakdown of Yani, bütün vazifem sabahtan akşama kadar evrak kaşelemekten ibaret.

as ... as; until, up to

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Questions & Answers about Yani, bütün vazifem sabahtan akşama kadar evrak kaşelemekten ibaret.

Why does kaşelemek (to stamp) have the ablative -ten ending here?

It is required by the word ibaret, which means 'consisting of' or 'amounting to'. The structure in Turkish is always [noun or verbal noun] + -DAn ibaret. Because the duty is an action, we use the verbal noun kaşelemek and add -ten to complete this set phrase.

I usually see görev for 'duty'. Is vazifem any different?

Vazife is an older, Arabic-origin synonym for görev. Both mean 'duty' or 'task' and are interchangeable in most contexts, though görev is generally more common in everyday modern Turkish. The -m at the end is just the 'my' possessive ending.

Why doesn't evrak have a plural ending if it translates to 'documents'?

The word evrak is actually an Arabic plural form (the plural of 'varak', meaning leaf or document). Therefore, it already carries a plural meaning. While you will sometimes hear native speakers double-pluralize it as evraklar, using just evrak for 'documents' is grammatically correct and standard.

How exactly is the verb kaşelemekten formed?