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In Turkish, adjectives like hızlı (“fast”) cannot function directly as adverbs. To turn an adjective into an adverb of manner you have two main options:
- Add the suffix -ca/-ce to get hızlıca.
- Use the pattern adjective + bir + şekilde, literally “in a ... way,” yielding hızlı bir şekilde (“in a fast way”).
Here the second option is chosen, so hızlı bir şekilde means “quickly.”
Both mean “quickly,” but:
• hızlıca is shorter, more colloquial, and often used in spoken Turkish.
• hızlı bir şekilde sounds more formal or emphatic and is common in written or formal contexts.
Turkish has two-way vowel harmony for a/e suffixes. You look at the last vowel of the noun:
• istasyon ends in o, a back vowel.
• Therefore the ablative takes the back-vowel form -dan (not -den).
Result: istasyon + dan → istasyondan.
ayrıldı breaks down into:
• ayrıl- (verb root, “to separate/depart”)
• -dı (simple past tense suffix)
• Ø (no extra ending for 3rd person singular)
Together ayrıl-dı = “he/she/it departed.”
The simple past suffix -DI adapts to the last vowel of the verb root by vowel harmony:
• Root ayrıl- has the vowel ı, which is a back, unrounded vowel.
• The matching suffix form is -dı (back, unrounded) rather than -di, -du, or -tı.
Turkish has relatively free word order because grammatical roles are marked by cases and suffixes. The verb typically goes at the end, but subject and adverbial phrases can move for emphasis:
• Tren istasyondan hızlı bir şekilde ayrıldı.
• Hızlı bir şekilde tren istasyondan ayrıldı.
All are grammatically correct; you’d only change order to highlight a particular element.