Word
Yıllardır bu problemle uğraşmaktan bıktım.
Meaning
I am fed up with dealing with this problem for years.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Yıllardır bu problemle uğraşmaktan bıktım.
bu
this
problem
problem
yıl
year
ile
with / by / and (linking nouns)
Questions & Answers about Yıllardır bu problemle uğraşmaktan bıktım.
How does the duration suffix work in yıllardır?
Yıl means "year" and -lar makes it plural. Adding the duration suffix -dır translates to "for" a period of time. So, yıllardır means "for years". Because yıllar ends in a voiced consonant and its last vowel is an "a", we use -dır instead of variations like -tir or -dur.
Why is there an -le at the end of problemle?
Why does the verb uğraşmak have the -tan suffix?
The verb bıkmak (to be fed up) always requires the thing you are fed up with to take the ablative case (the "from" suffix, -dan / -den or -tan / -ten). In Turkish, you aren't fed up "with" something, you get fed up "from" it. That is why uğraşmak (to deal with) gets -tan to become uğraşmaktan.
Why is bıktım in the past tense if the English translation says "I am fed up"?