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Questions & Answers about Güldürenler başrol oynayacaktı.
How does güldürenler mean "those who make people laugh" when there are no words for "those" or "people"?
This is the core of this lesson! Let's break it down: gül (laugh) + dür (make laugh) + en (who makes laugh) + ler (plural). Normally, the -An suffix describes a noun, like güldüren insanlar (people who make you laugh). By dropping the noun and adding the plural -ler directly to the verb, güldürenler becomes a noun itself, meaning "those who make people laugh."
I see the verb gülmek (to laugh) inside güldürenler. What does the -dür part do?
The -dür is a causative suffix. It changes the meaning from doing the action yourself to making someone else do it. So, while gülenler means "those who laugh", güldürenler means "those who make (others) laugh".
Why does oynayacaktı have both a future suffix (-yacak) and a past suffix (-tı)?
This combination creates the "future in the past" tense, which translates to "was/were going to". The future -yacak combined with the past -tı shows an action that was planned or expected in the past, hence "were going to play".
Since the subject is plural (güldürenler), shouldn't the verb also be plural, like oynayacaklardı?