Ben çamaşır makinesi bozulsa bile çamaşırı elde yıkıyorum.

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Breakdown of Ben çamaşır makinesi bozulsa bile çamaşırı elde yıkıyorum.

• yıkamak: to wash
• bozulmak: to break down
• çamaşır: the laundry

Questions & Answers about Ben çamaşır makinesi bozulsa bile çamaşırı elde yıkıyorum.

What does bozulsa mean exactly, and what is the role of the suffix -sa?

Bozulsa comes from bozulmak = “to break down / to get broken”.

Morphology:

• bozul- – verb stem “break down”
• -sa – conditional suffix (“if …” / “were to …”)

So bozulsa literally means “if (it) broke / if (it) were to break”.

This is a hypothetical or less-real / more remote kind of conditional. It’s not describing a concrete time when it actually breaks, but more like a possibility in general.

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What is the function of bile, and what does the combination -sa bile mean?

Bile means “even”.

• By itself:
  
  • Ben bile geldim. → “Even I came.”

When you combine the conditional -sa with bile, you get:

• bozulsa bile → “even if it breaks / even if it were to break”

So in this sentence:

• çamaşır makinesi bozulsa bile = “even if the washing machine breaks (down)”

Grammatically:

• bozul-sa = if it breaks
• bile = even
  → “even if it breaks”

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What’s the difference between bozulsa and bozulursa?