Breakdown of Müdürün temassızlığı gidermesi için yeni bir kablo aldım.
bir
a / an
yeni
new
müdür
manager, director
almak
to take, to buy
için
for
kablo
cable
temassızlık
loose connection
gidermek
to resolve / to eliminate (a problem, a need)
Questions & Answers about Müdürün temassızlığı gidermesi için yeni bir kablo aldım.
Why is it müdürün (manager's) and gidermesi (his resolving) instead of just "müdür gidermek için"?
When you want to say 'for [someone] to do [something],' Turkish uses a possessive construction. Because the person doing the action (the manager) is different from the person who bought the cable (I), you must use the genitive case on the subject (müdürün) and the possessive suffix on the verbal noun (giderme-si). It literally translates to 'for the manager's resolving.'
How does the word temassızlığı break down?
It comes from temas (contact). Adding -sız makes it 'without contact,' and -lık turns it into the noun temassızlık (lack of contact, or in electronics, a loose connection). Finally, the -ı at the end is the specific accusative suffix, because it is the direct object of the verb gidermek. Notice how the final k softens to ğ when the vowel is added.
What exactly does gidermek mean here? Is it related to gitmek?
Yes, historically it is a causative form of gitmek (to go), literally meaning 'to make something go away.' In modern Turkish, gidermek is commonly used to mean 'to resolve,' 'to eliminate,' or 'to relieve.' You will often see it used with problems (sorun gidermek), thirst (susuzluk gidermek), or in this case, a technical fault.
Why is it yeni bir kablo and not bir yeni kablo?
In Turkish, when a noun is modified by both a descriptive adjective (like yeni) and the indefinite article bir, the standard word order is Adjective + bir + Noun. Saying bir yeni kablo sounds unnatural to native ears, as bir typically needs to sit right next to the noun it modifies.
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