Word
Krizden beri insanlar daha fakir.
Meaning
People have been poorer since the crisis.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Questions & Answers about Krizden beri insanlar daha fakir.
Why does kriz have the -den ending here?
The postposition beri (since) always requires the noun before it to be in the ablative case (the "from" case). To say "since the crisis", you must attach -den to make krizden beri (literally: "from the crisis since").
The English translation uses "have been", but the Turkish sentence has no past tense words. Why?
When a situation started in the past and is still continuing right now, Turkish simply uses the present tense with beri. Because the people are still poorer today, Turkish essentially says they "are poorer since the crisis", whereas English requires the present perfect tense ("have been").
How do you form "poorer" in Turkish?
Turkish doesn't change the ending of an adjective to mean "-er". To compare things, you simply put daha (more) in front of the adjective. Therefore, "poorer" is always daha fakir (literally: "more poor").
Why is there no word for "are" after fakir?
In Turkish present-tense sentences, the "to be" verb is usually just a suffix attached to the final word. For third-person subjects like insanlar (people), this suffix is often dropped completely in everyday speech. Ending the sentence right on the adjective fakir is perfectly correct and natural.