Breakdown of Akşamki partide eski anıları anlatacaktım.
akşam
evening
anlatmak
to explain, to tell
eski
old
parti
party
Questions & Answers about Akşamki partide eski anıları anlatacaktım.
Why is it akşamki and not akşamdaki?
The suffix -ki turns time and place words into adjectives. With places, we usually need the locative case first (like masadaki, "the one on the table"). But with time words like akşam (evening), yarın (tomorrow), or dün (yesterday), we attach -ki directly to the root word. So akşamki parti simply means "the evening's party".
Why is there an -ı at the very end of anıları?
Anı means "memory", and -lar makes it plural. The final -ı is the accusative case suffix. We use it here because the speaker is thinking of specific, particular old memories they wanted to share, making them a specific direct object. If they were just going to tell any memories in general, it would simply be eski anılar anlatacaktım.
How does anlatacaktım mean "I was going to tell"?
This verb combines two time suffixes. The root is anlat (to tell). First we add the future suffix -acak, and then the past tense suffix -tı (plus -m for "I"). Whenever you combine the future and past like this (-acaktı), it means "was going to do" something—an intention in the past that usually ended up not happening.
Could I use yaşlı instead of eski for "old" memories?