Word
Bu büyük bir yangındı ama itfaiye arabası erken gelebildi.
Meaning
This was a big fire, but the fire engine managed to arrive early.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Bu büyük bir yangındı ama itfaiye arabası erken gelebildi.
bu
this
bir
a / an
araba
car
büyük
big
Questions & Answers about Bu büyük bir yangındı ama itfaiye arabası erken gelebildi.
How does gelebildi break down to mean "managed to arrive"?
It combines the verb root gel (to come/arrive), the ability suffix -ebil (can/able to), and the past tense suffix -di. Together, gel-ebil-di literally means "was able to come," which is how you express "managed to arrive" in Turkish.
Why is it itfaiye arabası with an -sı at the end, instead of just itfaiye araba?
This is a noun compound. When you put two nouns together to create a single concept (like "fire engine"), Turkish requires you to link them by adding a possessive suffix to the second noun. İtfaiye (fire department) + araba (car) gets the third-person possessive -sı, becoming itfaiye arabası.
Why does bir come after büyük (büyük bir yangındı) instead of before it like in English?
In Turkish, when a noun is described by both an adjective (like büyük, big) and the indefinite article bir (a/an), the standard word order is Adjective + bir + Noun. Saying bir büyük yangın sounds unnatural to native speakers.
What is the -dı attached to the end of yangındı?