Breakdown of Mükellefler gelirleri arttığı oranda daha fazla vergi öder.
ödemek
to pay
daha
more
gelir
income
artmak
to increase
oran
rate
fazla
too much, extra
vergi
tax
mükellef
taxpayer
Questions & Answers about Mükellefler gelirleri arttığı oranda daha fazla vergi öder.
How does the arttığı oranda structure work to mean "to the extent that"?
The target grammar here is verb + -dIk + possessive + oranda. We take artmak (to increase), add the participle -dık and the 3rd-person possessive -ı to get arttığı. Paired with oranda (at the rate / in the proportion), it literally translates to "at the rate of its increasing," which gives us "to the extent that" or "in proportion to how much".
Since gelirleri (their incomes) is plural, shouldn't the verbal noun be arttıkları instead of arttığı?
In Turkish, when a plural subject is non-human (like gelirler - incomes), the verb or verbal noun almost always stays in the singular form. That's why the singular possessive in arttığı is used; it correctly agrees with the non-human plural subject.
Why is the main verb öder in the aorist tense rather than the present continuous ödüyor?
The aorist tense (the -er in öder) is used for general facts, universal truths, and established rules. Since this sentence describes a systemic rule about how taxes work generally, rather than an action happening right now, the aorist is the most natural choice.
The subject Mükellefler (taxpayers) is a plural human subject. Why isn't the verb öderler?
While human plural subjects can take the plural verb suffix -lEr, they don't strictly have to. When talking about a generic category of people acting as a collective group—rather than specific individuals doing something—dropping the plural suffix on the verb is very common and sounds completely natural.
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