well, as it's my native language I don't know a lot about the grammar. but here's how it would be like in turkish:

zeynep, oğlunun akşam baloya götüreceği kıza vereceği çiçeği almak için dükkana gitti.

the flower her son was giving to his prom date that evening = oğlunun akşam baloya götüreceği kıza vereceği çiçek

breakup:
zeynep, çiçeği almak için dükkana gitti.

does it help?

So you would divide the thought into two smaller sentences? Is this the general rule with any compound/complex sentence?

Zeynep went to the store in order to pick up the flower her son was giving to his prom date that evening.

1) zeynep dükkana gitti

zeynep went to the store

dükkan- a : to store

2) zeynep çiçeği almak için dükkana gitti

zeynep went to the store in order to pick up the flower
in order to: için (like for)
pick up : almak
the flower : çiçek

3) zeynep çiçeği almak için dükkana gitti. hangi çiçek? (which flower?)

so define the flower:

oğlunun akşam baloya götüreceği kıza vereceği çiçek

çiçek+i = çiçeği


zeynep, oğlunun akşam baloya götüreceği kıza vereceği çiçeği almak için dükkana gitti.

mustklc, that is the best explanation I have ever had. You are a good teacher. No, you are an excellent teacher!! Is this your profession??

thank you . I am a teacher but I am a computer teacher not Turkish

Originally Posted by mustklc

thank you . I am a teacher but I am a computer teacher not Turkish

Well, my own daughter, (that is my daughter who is a Turkish native and lived with me for a year as an exchange student) and my "niece" (also an exchange who now claims me as her "uncle") have not taught me so well in so little period of time. And my niece is a translator with a couple of books to her credit. So, I am very impressed. Maybe it is because you are a computer teacher. You know exactly how to break things into byte-sized bits of information that I can then process in a logical sequence. Anyway, I find it very helpful. Yardımınız için teşekkür ederim. Çok çok sağol.

Originally Posted by Grace Seeker

Well, my own daughter, (that is my daughter who is a Turkish native and lived with me for a year as an exchange student) and my "niece" (also an exchange who now claims me as her "uncle") have not taught me so well in so little period of time. And my niece is a translator with a couple of books to her credit. So, I am very impressed. Maybe it is because you are a computer teacher. You know exactly how to break things into byte-sized bits of information that I can then process in a logical sequence. Anyway, I find it very helpful. Yardımınız için teşekkür ederim. Çok çok sağol.

önemli değil. her zaman yardıma hazırım.


It doesnt matter. I am always ready to help.