Word
Hücrelere veri girerken formülü yanlış yazarsam sonuç hatalı olur.
Meaning
If I write the formula incorrectly when entering data into the cells, the result will be wrong.
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Questions & Answers about Hücrelere veri girerken formülü yanlış yazarsam sonuç hatalı olur.
What does the suffix -ken in girerken indicate?
The suffix -ken forms an adverbial participle, expressing while or when. So girerken literally means while entering or as [I] enter.
Why is hücrelere in the dative case and what does it mean?
hücre means “cell,” -ler makes it plural, and -e marks the dative “to.” Therefore hücrelere = to the cells.
Why doesn’t veri take an accusative suffix, while formülü does?
In Turkish, definite/specific direct objects take the accusative suffix, but generic or indefinite objects often remain unsuffixed. Here veri (data) is used in a general sense, so it has no suffix. In contrast, formülü is “the formula” (definite), so it takes -ü.
Why is formülü in the accusative case?
Because it’s a definite direct object of yazmak. The last vowel of formül is ü, so the accusative suffix is -ü, giving formül + ü = formülü.
How is the conditional form yazarsam constructed from yazmak?