Questions & Answers about Yarınki umut büyük.
How does the suffix -ki work in the word yarınki?
The suffix -ki attaches directly to time words like yarın (tomorrow) to turn them into adjectives. Here, yarın + -ki becomes yarınki, which acts as an adjective describing the noun umut (hope). It translates to "tomorrow's" or "the one belonging to tomorrow".
Wait, yarın has back vowels (a, ı). Why didn't vowel harmony change the suffix to -kı?
The suffix -ki is a famous exception to Turkish vowel harmony rules! It almost always stays as -ki, regardless of the vowels in the root word. The only common exceptions you will see are dünkü (yesterday's) and bugünkü (today's), which round out to match the 'ü' or 'u'.
Could I say yarının umudu instead of yarınki umut to mean "tomorrow's hope"?
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
In Turkish, the "to be" verb (am/is/are) for the third person (he/she/it) is often invisible. The word büyük (big/great) acts as the verb of the sentence all by itself. You could technically add the factual suffix to make it büyüktür, but just saying büyük is perfectly complete and normal in everyday speech.
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