Learn Turkish: Ürünleri toplatılan şirket, bu yönetmelik üzerine yönetimini değiştirdi. - The company whose products were recalled changed its management upon this regulation.

Word

Ürünleri toplatılan şirket, bu yönetmelik üzerine yönetimini değiştirdi.

Meaning

The company whose products were recalled changed its management upon this regulation.

Part of speech

sentence

Pronunciation

Course

Turkish

Lesson

Immediate consequence (üzerine)

Breakdown of Ürünleri toplatılan şirket, bu yönetmelik üzerine yönetimini değiştirdi.

Questions & Answers about Ürünleri toplatılan şirket, bu yönetmelik üzerine yönetimini değiştirdi.

Why does üzerine follow bu yönetmelik without any extra suffixes attached to the noun?

In this structure, when üzerine (meaning "upon", "directly after", or "in response to") follows a plain noun or a noun phrase with a demonstrative (like bu yönetmelik, meaning "this regulation"), the noun remains in its absolute form without any case endings. Here, it means the company acted as a direct reaction to the regulation.

How does ürünleri toplatılan şirket translate to "the company whose products were recalled"?

Turkish doesn't have a single word for "whose". Instead, it uses a subject relative clause with the -An participle. Ürünleri means "its products" and toplatılan means "that were recalled". Put together before şirket (company), the phrase literally reads as "the its-products-recalled company".

Let's break down toplatılan. Why does it have both the causative -t and passive -ıl suffixes?

The root is topla- (to gather/collect). Adding the causative -t gives toplat- (to have someone gather / to issue a recall). Adding the passive -ıl makes it toplatıl- (to be ordered to be collected / to be recalled). Finally, the -an suffix turns the verb into an adjective describing the products.

Why is the verb değiştirdi used here rather than just ?