Breakdown of Bu renk kombinasyonu basit ama şık.
Questions & Answers about Bu renk kombinasyonu basit ama şık.
bu is a demonstrative pronoun meaning this (close to the speaker).
- şu means that (closer to the listener or neutral distance)
- o means that (far from both speaker and listener)
In Turkish, the present‐tense copula (to be) is usually omitted in simple adjective or noun‐predicate sentences.
So Bu renk kombinasyonu basit ama şık literally reads This color combination simple but chic, but it’s understood as This color combination is simple but chic.
Turkish does not have indefinite or definite articles. Definiteness is shown by:
- context (e.g. bu already makes it this color combination)
- certain case endings (accusative case on objects can mark definiteness)
ama is a coordinating conjunction meaning but. You can replace it with the more formal fakat or lakin without changing the basic meaning:
- basit fakat şık
- basit lakin şık
In Turkish compound nouns (noun + noun), the second noun takes the 3rd-person singular possessive suffix -sI, which appears as -u by vowel harmony after n.
Example:
- renk kombinasyonu = color combination
- kan grubu = blood group
Here basit and şık are predicate adjectives, forming an equational sentence (X is Y).
- Pre-nominal adjectives (attributes) appear before a noun (e.g. basit bir tasarım = a simple design)
- Predicate adjectives come after the subject, just like in Bu renk kombinasyonu basit ama şık.