Breakdown of Yeni saray çok büyük ve güzelmiş.
büyük
big
güzel
beautiful / nice / good
yeni
new
çok
very
ve
and
saray
palace
Questions & Answers about Yeni saray çok büyük ve güzelmiş.
Why does only güzel get the -miş suffix, while büyük doesn't?
When linking words with ve (and), Turkish often attaches the grammatical ending only to the final word in the list. The -miş on güzelmiş applies to büyük as well, so it means the palace was apparently both big and beautiful.
The translation says 'was apparently.' How does -miş add this meaning?
When attached to nouns or adjectives, -miş acts as a reported past tense marker. It shows that you did not see the palace yourself, but you heard about it from someone else. It is perfect for expressing 'I heard it is' or 'it is apparently'.
What is the difference between saying güzelmiş and güzeldi in this sentence?
If you used güzeldi, it would mean you saw the palace with your own eyes and know for a fact it was beautiful. By using güzelmiş, you are making it clear that this is secondhand information you are passing along.
If I removed ve güzel and just wanted to say 'The new palace was apparently big', how would büyük change?
The suffix follows 4-way vowel harmony. Because the last vowel in büyük is ü, the suffix would become -müş, making the word büyükmüş. In our sentence, it attaches to güzel, so the e makes it -miş.
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