Questions & Answers about Tesis büyük fakat güvenli.
Why is there no verb meaning “is” in this sentence?
In Turkish, the copula “is” is often omitted in the simple present tense. When you want to say “The facility is large,” you simply say tesis büyük. It’s understood that you’re stating a fact about the subject without needing a separate verb.
Why don’t the adjectives büyük and güvenli take any suffix or ending?
Here they’re used predicatively (i.e., stating a property of the subject). Predicative adjectives in Turkish remain bare with the zero copula and do not take case endings. If you wanted to make it explicitly formal or emphatic, you could add -dir:
• Tesis büyüktür fakat güvenlidir.
What role does fakat play, and can I use ama instead?
fakat is a coordinating conjunction meaning but. It links two contrasting statements (large vs. safe). ama is a less formal synonym, so you can say:
• Tesis büyük ama güvenli.
Both are correct; fakat just sounds slightly more formal or written.
Why is the word order “tesis büyük” instead of “büyük tesis”?