Neyse ki yangında kimseye zarar gelmedi.

the fire

Breakdown of Neyse ki yangında kimseye zarar gelmedi.

• neyse ki: luckily
• kimse: nobody
• -da: in

Questions & Answers about Neyse ki yangında kimseye zarar gelmedi.

What does Neyse ki mean?

Neyse ki means luckily, fortunately, or thankfully.

It is a very common expression used to introduce a positive outcome after something bad or risky happened.

• Neyse ki yetiştik. = Luckily, we made it.
• Neyse ki kimse yaralanmadı. = Fortunately, nobody was injured.

Even though neyse by itself can mean something like anyway or whatever, in Neyse ki the whole expression works like a fixed phrase meaning fortunately.

What is the function of ki in Neyse ki?

Here, ki helps connect the introductory phrase to the rest of the sentence.

In Neyse ki, it is part of a set expression, so it is best learned as a chunk:

• Neyse ki = luckily / fortunately

You do not need to translate ki word-for-word here. In other sentences, ki can sometimes act like that or serve as a linker, but in this phrase it is simply part of the idiomatic expression.

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