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How does Turkish build a word meaning “because of their poverty”?
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In Turkish, the word parasızlıklarından means "because of their poverty." As an agglutinative language, Turkish builds this term by expanding a primary stem with a sequence of specific suffixes, each designating a grammatical notion.1
The word is composed of the following elements:
- para: "money" (the primary stem)
- -sız: "-less"
- -lık: "-ness"
- -lar: plural marker
- -ı(n): possessive suffix
- -dan: ablative case, meaning "from" or "due to"1