Seksen yetmişten fazladır.

Eighty is more than seventy.

Breakdown of Seksen yetmişten fazladır.

• fazla: more
• yetmiş: seventy
• seksen: eighty

Questions & Answers about Seksen yetmişten fazladır.

Why does yetmiş become yetmişten?

Because Turkish uses the ablative suffix here: -den / -dan / -ten / -tan.

In comparison sentences, this suffix often does the job that English than does.

So:

• yetmiş = seventy
• yetmişten = than seventy

In this sentence, yetmişten means than seventy, not literally from seventy in the English sense, even though the ablative suffix originally has a from meaning.

Is -ten basically the Turkish equivalent of than?

In sentences like this, yes.

A very common Turkish comparison pattern is:

X, Y-den fazla
= X is more than Y

So:

• Seksen yetmişten fazladır.
• literally: Eighty is more from seventy
• naturally: Eighty is more than seventy

So while -ten is not always equal to than, it often works that way in comparisons.

What does fazla mean here?