Breakdown of Kili ve maketi çalışma masasında bırak.
masa
table
ve
and
çalışmak
to work / to study
bırakmak
to leave (something somewhere), to drop off / to release, to let go of / to quit / to stop (doing something)
Questions & Answers about Kili ve maketi çalışma masasında bırak.
How is the compound çalışma masasında built?
It is a verbal noun purpose compound. It combines the short verbal noun çalışma (working) with masa (desk). To link them, masa takes the compound marker -sı. Finally, to say 'on' the desk, we add the locative suffix -da, using the buffer letter -n- in between (masa-sı-n-da).
Does çalışma always mean 'working'? Could it be a negative command meaning 'do not work'?
Context makes the difference. While -ma is the negative suffix for verbs, here it acts as the verbal noun suffix, turning çalışmak into the noun çalışma (the act of working or studying). Because it is linked to masası, it clearly forms a noun compound, not a negative verb.
Why doesn't the 't' in maketi soften to a 'd' when adding the vowel suffix?
Normally, a word ending in 't' would change to 'd' when adding the accusative suffix -i (like kağıt becoming kağıdı). However, maket is a loanword, and many foreign borrowings are exceptions that keep their hard consonants.
Why do both kili and maketi get the accusative suffix?