Word
Eğer perdeler koyu renkliyse, sabah ışığı daha geç içeri girer.
Meaning
If the curtains are dark, morning light enters later.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Eğer perdeler koyu renkliyse, sabah ışığı daha geç içeri girer.
olmak
to be
girmek
to enter
eğer
if
daha geç
later
Questions & Answers about Eğer perdeler koyu renkliyse, sabah ışığı daha geç içeri girer.
What does eğer mean, and is it necessary here?
Eğer means if.
In this sentence, it introduces the condition: If the curtains are dark-colored...
It is often optional in Turkish when the conditional ending already makes the meaning clear. So you could also say:
Perdeler koyu renkliyse, sabah ışığı daha geç içeri girer.
That still means the same thing. Using eğer just makes the if relationship more explicit.
Why is perdeler plural?
Perde means curtain, and perdeler means curtains.
Turkish uses the plural suffix -ler / -lar here because the sentence is talking about curtains in general, or the curtains in a room. English also uses the plural naturally: If the curtains are dark-colored...
The suffix is -ler here because of vowel harmony: perde has front vowels, so the plural becomes perdeler.
What does koyu renkliyse mean exactly?