İşte beklediğimiz cevap.

Here is the answer we expected.

Breakdown of İşte beklediğimiz cevap.

• cevap: the answer
• beklemek: to expect
• işte: here it is; well

Questions & Answers about İşte beklediğimiz cevap.

What does işte mean in this sentence?

Here, işte means something like here is, there it is, or this is exactly....

In İşte beklediğimiz cevap, it gives a feeling like:

• Here is the answer we were waiting for.
• This is the answer we expected.
• There’s the answer we’ve been waiting for.

So işte often points something out and draws attention to it.

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What does beklediğimiz cevap literally mean?

Literally, beklediğimiz cevap means the answer that we waited for or the answer we were expecting.

It breaks down like this:

• beklediğimiz = that we waited for / that we expected
• cevap = answer

So Turkish puts the descriptive part before the noun:

• beklediğimiz cevap = the answer we were waiting for

This is very normal in Turkish.

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How is beklediğimiz formed?