İkinci açıklama bana daha olası geliyor.

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Breakdown of İkinci açıklama bana daha olası geliyor.

• ikinci: second
• ben: me
• açıklama: the explanation

Questions & Answers about İkinci açıklama bana daha olası geliyor.

What does each word in İkinci açıklama bana daha olası geliyor mean?

A word-by-word breakdown is:

• ikinci = second
• açıklama = explanation
• bana = to me
• daha = more
• olası = likely, possible
• geliyor = is coming, but here it means something like seems or feels

So the whole sentence means something like:

• The second explanation seems more likely to me.

A more literal feel would be:

• The second explanation is coming across to me as more likely.

Why is it bana and not ben?

Because Turkish uses the dative case here.

• ben = I
• bana = to me

With gelmek used in this figurative way, the person who gets the impression is often marked with the dative:

• Bana ilginç geliyor. = It seems interesting to me.
• Sana doğru geliyor mu? = Does it seem right to you?

So bana is correct because the sentence is expressing how something seems to me.

Why does geliyor mean seems here? Doesn’t mean ?