O buradaysa ben de buradayım.

to be

Breakdown of O buradaysa ben de buradayım.

• burada: here
• ben: I
• o: he

Questions & Answers about O buradaysa ben de buradayım.

What does buradaysa mean exactly, and how is it formed?

Buradaysa means roughly “if (he/she/it) is here”.

Morphologically, it’s:

• burada – here
• -ysa – conditional suffix (a contracted form of ise, if it is)

Historically:
burada + ise → burada ise → buradaysa

So -ysa / -yse attaches to nouns, pronouns, adverbs etc. to give a conditional meaning like “if it is X / when it is X”.

Because burada ends in a vowel and -sa/ -se also starts with a vowel, Turkish adds a buffer y to make pronunciation easier:

• burada + y + sa → buradaysa

Why is there a y in both buradaysa and buradayım?