Breakdown of Raporun tersine, numuneyi tam çöpe atacakken harika bir sonuç bulduk.
bir
a / an
bulmak
to find
rapor
report
tam
exactly / fully / completely
harika
wonderful
çöp
garbage
atmak
to throw / to tie (a knot) / to lay (a foundation) / to put (a signature)
sonuç
result
tersine
on the contrary / in contrast
numune
sample
Questions & Answers about Raporun tersine, numuneyi tam çöpe atacakken harika bir sonuç bulduk.
Why does rapor take the genitive ending in raporun tersine, and could I use aksine instead?
You can absolutely use raporun aksine; they are interchangeable here. To say 'contrary to [noun]' or 'unlike [noun]', Turkish literally says 'to the opposite of [noun]'. Therefore, the noun gets the genitive suffix (rapor-un, 'of the report') and connects to tersine or aksine (which contain a possessive suffix meaning 'its opposite', plus the dative case).
How does the ending on atacakken create the meaning 'about to throw'?
It combines the future tense suffix -acak (will throw) with the adverbial suffix -ken (while). Literally, it translates to 'while going to throw'. When paired with the word tam (exactly / just), tam ... atacakken is the standard way to express 'just as we were about to [do something]'.
Why is numuneyi in the accusative case, while the other object, harika bir sonuç, takes no case ending?
Numune (sample) takes the specific accusative suffix -yi because the speakers are talking about a specific, known sample ('the sample'). Meanwhile, harika bir sonuç includes the indefinite article bir ('a great result'), making it an indefinite object. In Turkish, indefinite objects do not take the accusative case suffix.
Why does çöp (trash) take the dative case in çöpe atacakken?
The verb atmak (to throw) requires the dative case for the destination of the throw. Even though in English we say 'throw in the trash', in Turkish you are literally throwing the sample 'to the trash' (çöp-e).
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