Breakdown of Yeni yönetmelik üzerine kamuoyunun tepkisi büyüdü.
yeni
new
büyümek
to grow
tepki
reaction
kamuoyu
public opinion
üzerine
upon, immediately after
yönetmelik
regulation
Questions & Answers about Yeni yönetmelik üzerine kamuoyunun tepkisi büyüdü.
Why doesn't yönetmelik have a suffix before üzerine?
When üzerine is used to mean "upon" or "as a reaction to" an event or thing, the preceding noun remains in its bare (nominative) form. So yönetmelik üzerine simply means "upon the regulation." If you were using a pronoun instead, it would need the genitive case (like onun üzerine), but regular nouns don't require it in this structure.
Does üzerine just mean "after" here, like -den sonra?
It means "after," but with a strong sense of cause and effect. While yönetmelikten sonra simply means "after the regulation" chronologically, yönetmelik üzerine emphasizes that the public's reaction was a direct and immediate response to the new regulation.
How is the word kamuoyunun formed?
The root is kamuoyu (public opinion / the public). This is a fixed compound made of kamu (public) + oy (vote/opinion) + the possessive suffix -u. To say "the public's reaction," we need the genitive case, so we add the buffer consonant -n- and the suffix -un, resulting in kamuoyunun.
Why is it tepkisi instead of just tepki?
Because it is the second part of a possessive relationship: kamuoyunun tepkisi (the public's reaction). The word tepki (reaction) takes the third-person possessive suffix -si to link it back to the genitive word kamuoyunun.
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