I was in her sitting room

[Mramateur]

What happens when a possessed ending is added onto a word which already has one?

I was thinking of translating the sentence "I was in her sitting room".

Would it be "Onun oturma odasısındaydım"?

I haven't seen this adressed in my grammar book even though it seems pretty important.

 

[hcanbyrm]

That's a correct sentence

 

[spiraxo]

Would it be "Onun oturma odasısındaydım"?

Onun oturma odasındaydım.

 

[Rallino]

Now try to say: "she was in my living room".

 

[misi2991]

As far as I remeber from my school days, "onun odası" is a tamlama in which "onun" is referred to as tamlayan and "odası" as tamlanan. You can put a word between tamlayan and tamamlanan as is the case with "onun oturma odası", but that does not make any difference to the suffix added to tamlanan. I may be wrong. But we say "onun oturma odasındaydım", not "onun oturma odasısındaydım".

 

[Rallino]

When adding a suffix to a noun that is in the tamlama format, the rule is to omit the tamlanan suffix before adding the new possessive suffix. Natives don't learn this rule at school, because we do it intuitively. ​

 

[Mramateur]

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Now try to say: "she was in my living room".

I think that would be "benim oturma odasımdaydı"

 

[Mramateur]

I've read the more recent posts and I think I get it now.
"You did his homework" in Turkish would be "Onun ev ödevini yaptın", right?

 

[spiraxo]

This would help!

 

[Mramateur]

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I think that would be "benim oturma odasımdaydı"

So this should have been "odamdaydı" instead.

 

[Mramateur]

This would help!

Thanks

 

[misi2991]

So this should have been "odamdaydı" instead.

Yes.

I've read the more recent posts and I think I get it now.
"You did his homework" in Turkish would be "Onun ev ödevini yaptın", right?

Yes.