Questions & Answers about Bu kumaş kâğıt kadar ince.
How do we form the "as thin as" structure with kadar?
In Turkish, to say something is "as [adjective] as [noun]", you use the order: [noun] kadar [adjective]. Here, kâğıt (paper) comes first, followed by the postposition kadar (as much as), and finally the adjective ince (thin). So kâğıt kadar ince literally means "paper-amount thin".
Why is there a little hat symbol on the 'a' in kâğıt?
That symbol is called a circumflex. In Turkish, it tells you to pronounce the preceding consonant softly. For kâğıt, it makes the 'k' sound softer, so it sounds a bit like "kya" rather than the hard "ka" you'd hear in a word like kapı (door).
Where is the word for "is" in Bu kumaş kâğıt kadar ince?
The "is" is implied! In Turkish, the third-person singular "to be" suffix (like -dir or -tir) is usually dropped in everyday language unless you are stating a formal fact. So, ending the sentence with the adjective ince is perfectly complete to mean "is thin."
Could Bu mean "This is" here, like "This is fabric as thin as paper"?