Bugün hava durumu yağmur diyor, ona göre plan yapalım.

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Breakdown of Bugün hava durumu yağmur diyor, ona göre plan yapalım.

• yapmak: to make
• plan: the plan
• o: it

Questions & Answers about Bugün hava durumu yağmur diyor, ona göre plan yapalım.

What does diyor literally mean here, and why can a forecast “say” something?

• Diyor is the present continuous of demek “to say,” so it literally means “is saying.”
• Turkish often personifies sources of information: news, reports, and forecasts can “say” things. So Hava durumu yağmur diyor = “The weather forecast says ‘rain’.” This is completely natural and very common.

Why is there no verb after yağmur? Shouldn’t it be yağacak or yağmur yağacak?

• In this construction, the forecast is “saying” a label or content word: yağmur (“rain”). It’s shorthand for fuller statements like:
  • Bugün yağmur yağacak. (It will rain today.)
  • Bugün yağmur bekleniyor. (Rain is expected today.)
• So … yağmur diyor is an economical, idiomatic way to report what the forecast says.

What exactly does ona göre mean, and what does ona refer to?

• -a/-e göre means “according to” or “in line with,” “accordingly.”
• Ona is the dative form of o (“that/it/he/she”) and here refers back to the information just mentioned (the forecast).
• You could also say:
  • Buna göre plan yapalım. (“According to this …”) Slightly tighter reference to what was just said.
  • Hava durumuna göre plan yapalım. (“According to the forecast …”) Most explicit.

Why is it ona göre, not some other case? What case does göre require?