caliptrix,
You beat me on this. I missed your message as I was writing the below.
Hello,
"Ağzı var dili yok" (having a mouth but no tongue) is an idiom. It means the person hardly spoke. The person didn't speak much.
The word "geçim" is a noun. It means 'living cost' or just 'living' if the word is used in the same context. For instance the sentence, "What do you do for living?" could be translated as, "Geçimini nasıl sağlıyorsun?".
geçim+i+n+i :noun+third person possessive suffix+n buffer+accusative case
If we conjugate the noun with possessive suffix it will be like this:
benim geçim+im
senin geçim+in
onun geçim+i
bizim geçim+imiz
sizin geçim+iniz
onların geçim+i
After possessive suffixes we use the n buffer instead the y buffer. The n buffer is necessary to devide two vowels. The -i that comes to the very end of that word is the accusative case. We use it because sağlamak (to provide) takes the -i case. Temin etmek (to provide) takes the -i case as well.
In other words, the accusative is part of the following verb, sağlamak. "-i sağlamak" (to provide something) would take the -i case no matter what noun we would use as the object of it.
There are countles examples to this rule.
-i görmek: to see something
-i bilmek: to know something
-i düşÃ¼nmek : to thing about something
-i sevmek : to like something
-i sağlamak : to provide something
-i temin etmek : to provide something
In Turkish we have 'y', 'n' and 's' buffers.
Y is used with case suffixes and tense suffixes that don't have a possessive suffix:
Kediye bak. (kedi+y+e : noun+y buffer+dative case)
Bu kediyi çok seviyorum. (kedi+y+i : noun+y buffer+accusative case)
Bu küçük kedi yakında yürüyecek. (yürü+y+ecek : verb stem+ y buffer + future tense suffix)
S is used with possessive suffixes :
Bu Ali'nin kedisi. (kedi+s+i : noun + s buffer + third person possessive suffix).
N buffer is used with case suffixes where the noun has a preceeding possessive suffix:
Ali'nin kedisini hiç sevmiyorum. (kedi+s+i+n+i :noun + s buffer + 3rd person possessive suffix + n buffer + accusative case)
One detail about the N buffer is that it can nly be used after third person singular and plural possesive suffixes because only those end with a vowel.
As for the other word, the nominative is 'ağız' (mouth). The rule is that, (generally, but not always) words with two syllables (therefore two vowels) that have a flat second vowel will drop that vowel if they take a suffix that starts with a vowel.
Flat vowels are ı,i,u,ü. Ağız, alın, burun, beyin, etc. all have two vowels. All have a flast second vowel. Therefore all will drop that second vowel when they are followed by a suffix that starts with a vowel.
Lets use the first person possessive suffix as an example:
ağız> benim ağzım (instead ağızım)
alın> benim alnım (instead alınım)
burun> benim burnum (instead burunum)
beyin> benim beynim (instead (beyinim)
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