Breakdown of Onun yalanlarına safça inandım.
yalan
lie (untruth)
inanmak
to believe
onun
his / her / its
saf
naive
Questions & Answers about Onun yalanlarına safça inandım.
How does the suffix -ça work in safça?
The suffix -ce / -ca turns adjectives into adverbs to describe how an action is done. Here, the adjective saf (pure/naive) becomes the adverb safça (naively). It uses -ça instead of -ca because saf ends in a hard, voiceless consonant (f), which changes the c to ç.
Why is the dative case -a added to the end of yalanlarına?
In Turkish, the verb inanmak (to believe) always takes the dative case. You don't just believe a lie, you believe to a lie. Therefore, the dative suffix -a is required at the very end of the word to connect it to inandım.
There are a lot of suffixes on yalanlarına. Can you break them down?
Let's take it piece by piece! The root is yalan (lie). Then we add -lar for plural (lies), and -ı for the possessive 'his' (his lies). When adding a case ending to a third-person possessive suffix, Turkish requires the buffer letter -n-. Finally, we add the dative -a for the verb. So: yalan + lar + ı + n + a.
I learned that means 'pure.' Why is it translated as 'naively' here?