Breakdown of Bu grafikte başarı oranı yüzde doksan mı?
bu
this
doksan
ninety
yüz
one hundred
mi
question particle (mı/mi/mu/mü)
Questions & Answers about Bu grafikte başarı oranı yüzde doksan mı?
How does yüzde doksan translate to "ninety percent"?
In Turkish, percentages are formed using the locative case suffix -de or -da attached to yüz (hundred). So yüzde literally means "in a hundred." You read it as "in a hundred, ninety," which is exactly what ninety percent means! Notice that the order is reversed compared to English: the "percent" part (yüzde) comes before the number (doksan).
Why is there an -ı at the end of oranı?
This is the compound noun suffix. When two nouns are put together to make a single new concept, like başarı (success) and oran (rate), the second noun usually takes a possessive suffix. Because oran ends in a consonant and its last vowel is "a", it takes the suffix -ı to become oranı (success rate).
Why is the locative suffix on grafik written as -te instead of -de?
The word grafik (graph) ends in the hard consonant "k". In Turkish, when you add a suffix starting with "d" to a word ending in a hard consonant (remember the "Fıstıkçı Şahap" rule), the suffix mutates to start with a "t" to match. So the locative suffix -de becomes -te. The vowel is "e" because the last vowel in grafik is "i", following standard vowel harmony rules.
Could I put the question particle mı earlier in the sentence?