İnandırıcı görünmesi doğru olduğunu kanıtlamaz.

to be

Breakdown of İnandırıcı görünmesi doğru olduğunu kanıtlamaz.

• görünmek: to seem
• doğru: true
• inandırıcı: convincing; believable

Questions & Answers about İnandırıcı görünmesi doğru olduğunu kanıtlamaz.

What is the basic structure of İnandırıcı görünmesi doğru olduğunu kanıtlamaz?

It breaks down like this:

• inandırıcı = convincing, persuasive, believable
• görünmesi = its seeming / its appearing
• doğru olduğunu = that it is true
• kanıtlamaz = does not prove

So the whole sentence is literally something like:

Its seeming convincing does not prove that it is true.

A more natural English translation would be:

Just because it seems convincing doesn't prove it's true.

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Why is it görünmesi and not just görünmek?

Because Turkish often turns verbs into noun-like clauses.

• görünmek = to seem / to appear
• görünmesi = its seeming / the fact that it seems

Here, görünmesi is functioning as the subject of the sentence. Turkish often uses this -mA + possessive form to make a clause behave like a noun.

So:

• İnandırıcı görünmek = to seem convincing
• İnandırıcı görünmesi = its seeming convincing / the fact that it seems convincing

In this sentence, görünmesi makes the idea more noun-like and more suitable as the subject of kanıtlamaz.

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