Koro şefi her ses grubunu ayrı ayrı dinliyormuşçasına sessizce bekledi.

to wait

Breakdown of Koro şefi her ses grubunu ayrı ayrı dinliyormuşçasına sessizce bekledi.

• sessizce: quietly
• her: each
• ayrı: separate

Questions & Answers about Koro şefi her ses grubunu ayrı ayrı dinliyormuşçasına sessizce bekledi.

What exactly does dinliyormuşçasına mean, and how is it built?

It means as if he/she were listening or as though he/she were listening.

A simple breakdown is:

• dinle- = listen
• dinliyor = is listening
• -muşçasına = as if / as though

So:

• dinliyormuşçasına = as if listening, more naturally in English as if he were listening

In this sentence, it describes the way the choir conductor waited: he waited as if he were listening to each voice group separately.

Does the -muş in dinliyormuşçasına have its usual apparently / reportedly meaning?

Not really, at least not in the usual full sense.

Normally, -mış / -miş / -muş / -müş can mark:

• indirect knowledge
• hearsay
• inference

But in the fixed pattern -mışçasına, the whole ending usually means as if / as though. So here, you should understand the whole chunk -muşçasına as one unit.

So dinliyormuşçasına is not really about reporting or hearsay. It is mainly about appearance or comparison:

• He waited as if he were listening...

Who is doing the listening in dinliyormuşçasına?