Breakdown of Metro açılalı mahalle çok değişti.
çok
very
metro
subway
mahalle
neighborhood
açılmak
to open (intransitive, be opened)
Questions & Answers about Metro açılalı mahalle çok değişti.
How does açılalı mean 'since it opened'?
The word breaks down into three parts: aç (the root for open), -ıl (which makes it passive, meaning to be opened), and the target grammar suffix -alı which means since doing or since an event happened. So açılalı literally means since being opened.
Could I just say açalı instead of açılalı?
No, because açalı comes from the active verb açmak (to open), so it would mean since someone opened something. The subway did not open something else. The -ıl- suffix makes the verb passive (açılmak means to be opened), which is the natural way to say a building or service opened for business in Turkish.
The English translation says 'has changed', but değişti is in the simple past tense. Why?
In Turkish, the simple past tense (using the -di or -ti suffix) is often used for events that happened in the past but whose results still affect the present. This perfectly matches the English present perfect tense (has changed). When you use an -alı (since) clause, the main verb is almost always in the simple past tense.
Why isn't there a comma after açılalı to separate the two halves of the sentence?