Sağlamak can mean providing something useful or making an outcome possible. You will describe resources, benefits and arrangements that ensure something happens, rather than translate every use as “give”.
The idea
With a resource, use a noun: gençlere çalışma alanı sağlamak means to provide young people with workspace. The recipient takes the dative. With an outcome, use a nominalised clause as the object: herkesin konuşmasını sağlamak means to ensure everyone speaks. Here herkesin identifies who speaks; konuşmasını combines a verbal noun, third-person possessive ending and accusative. The stem sağla- becomes sağlı- in sağlıyorum, but stays in sağladım and sağlarım. The future is sağlayacağım: a linking y precedes the future ending, whose k softens before the personal ending.
| Form | ben | o |
|---|---|---|
| Present continuous | sağlıyorum | sağlıyor |
| Past | sağladım | sağladı |
| Future | sağlayacağım | sağlayacak |
| Aorist / general | sağlarım | sağlar |
| Negative present continuous | sağlamıyorum | sağlamıyor |
| Negative aorist | sağlamam | sağlamaz |
| Ability | sağlayabilirim | sağlayabilir |
Examples
- Bu atölye gençlere çalışma alanı sağlıyor.This workshop provides young people with workspace.
- Yeni raflar bize yer sağladı.The new shelves gave us more space.
- Bu yöntem zaman tasarrufu sağlar.This method saves time.
- Bu çizelge herkesin sırayla konuşmasını sağlıyor.This schedule ensures that everyone speaks in turn.
- Ekibe gerekli malzemeyi yarın sağlayacağım.I will provide the team with the necessary materials tomorrow.
- Bu kapak suyun dökülmemesini sağlıyor.This lid ensures that the water does not spill.
- Sadece para sağlamak sorunu çözmez.Providing money alone does not solve the problem.
- Yeni düzenleme beklediğimiz kolaylığı sağlamadı.The new arrangement did not make things as easy as we expected.
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Watch out
Do not transfer the dative of the recipient to an outcome: use konuşmasını sağlamak, not konuşmasına sağlamak. To ensure that something does not happen, negate the embedded action: dökülmemesini sağlamak. Negating sağlamak instead says that the outcome is not ensured.
Try it yourself
Write only the third-person singular present continuous of sağlamak: this workshop is providing young people with workspace now.
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sağlıyor
sağlıyor: the workshop is providing space now, so the third-person present continuous fits. The final a of sağla- narrows to dotless ı before -yor.
Complete with the nominalised object form of konuşmak: this schedule ensures that everyone speaks in turn. Write one word.
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konuşmasını
konuşmasını: it is everyone’s speaking that the schedule ensures. The -sı links the action to herkesin, and the final -nı marks that whole action as the object.
Write only the first-person singular future of sağlamak: I will provide the necessary materials tomorrow.
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sağlayacağım
sağlayacağım: yarın and the requested future form place the supply tomorrow; ben requires first-person singular. The future k becomes ğ before -ım.
Use a negative nominalised object form of dökülmek: this lid ensures that the water does not spill. Write one word.
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dökülmemesini
dökülmemesini: the desired result is that the water does not spill. The negative -me comes before the verbal-noun -me; possessive -si and accusative -ni complete the object.
Practice round
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Write only the third-person singular present continuous of sağlamak: this workshop is providing young people with workspace now.
Complete with the nominalised object form of konuşmak: this schedule ensures that everyone speaks in turn. Write one word.
Write only the first-person singular future of sağlamak: I will provide the necessary materials tomorrow.
Use a negative nominalised object form of dökülmek: this lid ensures that the water does not spill. Write one word.
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Describe a shared workspace in three sentences: what it provides, what it enables people to do, and what it prevents from happening. Use one future form and underline each object of sağlamak.