Questions & Answers about Bu çekmece çanta kadar derin değil.
How does kadar create the "as deep as" meaning here?
Kadar acts like a postposition meaning "as much as". It comes right after the noun you are comparing against. So, çanta kadar means "as much as a bag", and adding the adjective makes çanta kadar derin ("as deep as a bag").
Does çanta need a special case ending before kadar?
No. When comparing plain nouns using kadar, the noun stays in its dictionary form. You just put kadar right after it: çanta kadar. If you were using a pronoun instead, like "me", it would need a genitive ending (like benim kadar), but regular nouns do not.
Why is değil used at the end instead of a negative verb suffix?
Why does the English translation say "the bag" if there is no word for "the" before çanta?
Turkish doesn't have a direct equivalent for the definite article "the" in this position. Because you are comparing a specific drawer (bu çekmece) to a bag, context tells us you are likely talking about a specific bag in the room, so translating it as "the bag" makes the most natural sense in English.