Valla iltifatın inanılmaz güzeldi.

good

Breakdown of Valla iltifatın inanılmaz güzeldi.

• iltifat: a compliment
• valla: honestly; I swear (colloquial)
• inanılmaz: incredible; unbelievable

Questions & Answers about Valla iltifatın inanılmaz güzeldi.

What does valla do at the beginning of the sentence?

Valla is a very common conversational word in Turkish. It adds a tone like:

• honestly
• really
• seriously
• I mean it
• sometimes even wow

In this sentence, it gives the speaker a warm, sincere, slightly emphatic tone. It is not essential to the grammar of the sentence; you could remove it and still have a complete sentence:

• İltifatın inanılmaz güzeldi. = Your compliment was incredibly nice/amazing.

Valla is informal and very common in speech.

Is valla the same as vallahi?

They are closely related. Valla is basically a colloquial shortened form of vallahi.

• vallahi is more literal/historical and comes from Arabic
• valla is the everyday spoken version in modern Turkish

In casual speech, valla is extremely common. A learner will hear it all the time.

What does iltifatın mean exactly?

İltifatın means your compliment.

It is made of:

• iltifat = compliment
• -ın = your (2nd person singular possessive suffix)

So:

• iltifat = compliment
• iltifatın = your compliment

This suffix works like English your, but in Turkish it is attached directly to the noun.