Word
Ya duvar kâğıdı çok karanlık ya da aydınlatma çok kötü.
Meaning
Either the wallpaper is very dark or the lighting is very bad.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Ya duvar kâğıdı çok karanlık ya da aydınlatma çok kötü.
çok
very
kötü
bad
karanlık
dark
ya... ya da
either... or
Questions & Answers about Ya duvar kâğıdı çok karanlık ya da aydınlatma çok kötü.
Why does the second part use ya da instead of just ya?
The correlative conjunction ya... ya... means 'either... or...'. You will very often see the word da added to the second part, making it ya... ya da.... Both forms are correct and mean the exact same thing, but adding da is extremely common in everyday Turkish and helps emphasize the 'or' option.
Why is the word for wallpaper duvar kâğıdı with an -ı at the end, instead of just duvar kâğıt?
This is a noun compound. When you combine two separate nouns like duvar (wall) and kâğıt (paper) to create a single new concept, Turkish requires a possessive suffix on the second word to link them. The suffix here is -ı. Also, adding a vowel suffix to kâğıt causes its final t to soften into a d, resulting in kâğıdı.
There are no verbs like 'is' in this sentence. How does it express that the wallpaper 'is' dark?
In Turkish, simple present-tense statements often don't use a 'to be' verb. Just putting the subject and the adjective together, as in duvar kâğıdı çok karanlık (the wallpaper [is] very dark), is a complete sentence. The 'is' is naturally understood from the context.
Does the -ma at the end of aydınlatma (lighting) mean it is a negative word?