Bir dolar kaç lira?

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Breakdown of Bir dolar kaç lira?

• kaç: how many
• lira: the lira (Turkish currency unit)
• dolar: a dollar

Questions & Answers about Bir dolar kaç lira?

Why is bir used here? Does it mean one or a?

In this sentence, bir means one in a practical sense, but it often works like English a/an too.

So Bir dolar kaç lira? literally looks like One dollar [is] how many lira?, but in natural English it corresponds to How many lira is a dollar? or How much is one dollar in lira?

Turkish bir can mean:

• one as a number
• a/an as an indefinite article-like word

Turkish does not have a separate word exactly like English a/an, so bir often does both jobs.

What does kaç mean exactly?

Kaç means how many or how much, depending on context.

In Bir dolar kaç lira?, it asks for a numerical amount:
How many lira is one dollar?

You will also see kaç in other questions:

• Saat kaç? = What time is it? / literally The hour is how many?
• Kaç yaşındasın? = How old are you?
• Kaç kişi var? = How many people are there?

So kaç is a very common question word for numbers and quantities.

Why is there no verb in the sentence?