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Questions & Answers about Fiyat aralığı çok geniş.
Why is there no verb like is in Fiyat aralığı çok geniş?
In Turkish, simple present‐tense “to be” is normally omitted in equational sentences. Although in English you say “The price range is very wide,” in Turkish you simply say Fiyat aralığı çok geniş. If you want to be more formal or explicit, you can add the suffix -tir/-dır to the adjective: Fiyat aralığı çok geniştir.
What role does the suffix -ı play in aralığı?
That -ı is the 3rd person singular possessive suffix attached to aralık (“range”). In noun–noun compounds like fiyat aralığı, the first noun (fiyat) stays bare and the second noun takes a possessive ending. So aralığı literally means “its range,” giving the sense “price’s range” → “price range.”
Why doesn’t fiyat have a genitive suffix (i.e. why isn’t it fiyatın aralığı)?
Regular possessive structures use the genitive on the possessor (fiyatın aralığı), but Turkish has a special compound‐noun rule: the possessor noun stays unmarked and the possessed noun takes the 3rd person possessive suffix. Hence fiyat aralığı rather than fiyatın aralığı.
Why does the k in aralık change to ğ when you add -ı?
This is consonant softening (sandhi). Word‐final k often turns into ğ before a vowel‐initial suffix. So aralık + ı becomes aralığı, not aralıkı.
What’s the function of çok in this sentence? Can I drop it?
Çok is an adverb meaning “very.” It intensifies the adjective geniş. Without çok, Fiyat aralığı geniş still means “The price range is wide,” but less emphatic. Drop it whenever you want a milder statement.
Why is geniş placed after fiyat aralığı instead of before it?
Here geniş is a predicate adjective describing the subject (fiyat aralığı), so it follows the noun in an equational sentence. If you wanted to say “a wide price range” as a noun phrase, you’d say geniş bir fiyat aralığı, where geniş precedes the noun.
How do I turn this into a question: “Is the price range very wide?”
Add the question particle mi after the adjective (with vowel harmony). You get:
Fiyat aralığı çok geniş mi?
How would I negate this statement?
Place değil (“not”) after the adjective:
Fiyat aralığı çok geniş değil.
For stronger negation (“not at all wide”) you can say Fiyat aralığı hiç de geniş değil.
How do I talk about multiple price ranges (i.e. pluralize fiyat aralığı)?
Attach the plural suffix -lar to aralık, then the 3rd person plural possessive -ı (which harmonizes to -ları):
fiyat aralıkları
Example: Fiyat aralıkları çok geniş. (“The price ranges are very wide.”)
How is the letter ğ pronounced in aralığı?
The Turkish ğ (soft g) isn’t a full “g” sound. It lengthens the preceding vowel and is otherwise silent. So aralığı sounds roughly like a-raa-lı (with a long a).