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Agglutination...One of those interesting words that is itself an example of what it means... According to the New World Paperback Dictionary on our desk here, "agglutination" is a noun meaning "sticking together, as with glue". When the term is used in relation to languages, it means that suffixes are attached to root words to enhance and broaden the meaning of the root. We use a little "suffix glue" sometimes in English -- think of forgetfulness, carelessness, merciless, enjoyable, fanciful, etc. But, in Turkish the glue-cup spilleth over. It's by attaching suffix after suffix to a Turkish root word that you can formulate some of the longest (and dare I say, hardest-to-decipher) words in the history of the world! Actually, the suffixes can add so much meaning to a word that the word transforms to become a phrase and then... a full fledged sentence -- with nary a break in the continuous onslaught of letters! |
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How about evdekiler; the people in the house or gülerlerken; when they are laughing. Not convinced that it's so difficult yet? Then how about... KosturulmamalIymIs; They say he shouldn't be forced to run. Still not convinced? Then try this... YaramazlastIrIlamIyabilenlerdenmissiniz; You seem to be one of those who is incapable of being naughty.
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Building Long Turkish Words Let's build some of these "words" from scratch -- to better see how the meaning is progressively enhanced. We'll start with evdekiler; the people in the house Take the simple noun ev meaning house. Then add the suffix de meaning in, which gives evde; in the house. Next glue on ki to convey that and you have evdeki; in that house. Finally, you finish off your creation with ler to express the people (literally, "the ones") and you have evdekiler; the people in that house or more simply, the people in the house.
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And here's another long one...A grandaddy of a one! YaramazlastIrIlamIyabilenlerdenmissiniz; Although this one's quite long, the procedure is the same. First find the root word...in this case yaramak; to be serviceable, useful and use it's negative adjectival form yaramaz; not useful, worthless, naughty. Next comes the triple suffix las-tIr-Il to convey the idea of acting like, behaving like, being like and we have yaramazlastIrIl ; acting like [a] naughty [person]. Continue the process by adding mI; not and bile; able and the double suffix ler-den; of them, from those and you have yaramazlastIrIlamIyabilenlerden [ask us about the helping letters a, y, and n -- later!] which means [one] of those not able to act like [a] naughty [person] -- and we're almost home! Just tack on the dubitative suffix mis to infer some doubt in the sense of it seems and follow it all at the end with the verbial suffix siniz; you are -- and voila, there you have it! YaramazlastIrIlamIyabilenlerdenmissiniz; It seems that you are [one] of those [who] is not able to act like [a] naughty [person] or, more simply, You seem to be one of those who is incapable of being naughty... |