Learn Turkish: Öğrenciler yurda yerleşeceklerse, çok şey alacaklar. - If the students are going to settle in the dormitory, they will buy many things.

Öğrenciler yurda yerleşeceklerse, çok şey alacaklar.

If the students are going to settle in the dormitory, they will buy many things.

Breakdown of Öğrenciler yurda yerleşeceklerse, çok şey alacaklar.

Questions & Answers about Öğrenciler yurda yerleşeceklerse, çok şey alacaklar.

How do the suffixes in yerleşeceklerse work together?

This is the future conditional, our current topic! It breaks down as yerleş (settle) + -ecek (future) + -ler (they) + -se (if). It means if they will settle or if they are planning to settle. Notice that the personal suffix -ler comes before the conditional -se.

Why did yurt (dormitory) become yurda?

Two things happen here. First, the verb yerleşmek (to settle) takes the dative case (to/into), so we add -a to mean into the dormitory. Second, adding this vowel causes the hard t at the end of yurt to soften into a d, making it yurda.

If they are buying many things, why isn't şey plural?

In Turkish, when you use a word that shows quantity like çok (a lot/many) or a number, the noun that follows stays in its singular form. So it is always çok şey, never çok şeyler.

Does alacaklar translate to they will buy or they will take?

Almak is a very flexible verb that means both to take and to buy. You can usually tell which one it is from the context. Here, settling into a new dorm and needing a lot of things implies shopping, so buy is the natural translation.