Döviz piyasasında alacaklarımız pahalı.
What we will buy in the foreign exchange market is expensive.
Breakdown of Döviz piyasasında alacaklarımız pahalı.
pahalı
expensive
almak
to take, to buy
döviz
foreign exchange / foreign currency
piyasa
market (financial/commercial)
Questions & Answers about Döviz piyasasında alacaklarımız pahalı.
How does alacaklarımız translate to "what we will buy" without using a word for "what" or "things"?
This is a "headless" relative clause. The verb al- (to buy/take) gets the future relative participle -acak. Normally, you would attach this to a noun, like in alacağımız şeyler (the things that we will buy). When you drop the noun (şeyler), the participle itself takes the plural suffix -lar and the possessive suffix -ımız (our). Together, alacaklarımız acts as a noun meaning "our things-to-be-bought".
Why is there an extra -sın- in the middle of piyasasında?
Döviz (foreign exchange) and piyasa (market) form a noun compound: döviz piyasası. The -sı is the compound marker. Whenever you add a spatial case ending like the locative -da (in/at/on) to a word that ends in a compound marker, you must insert the buffer letter -n-. Therefore, piyasa + -sı + -n- + -da becomes piyasasında.
Could alacaklarımız mean "our receivables" or "debts owed to us" in a business context?
Yes, absolutely! The substantivized participle alacak is so common that it is an official dictionary noun for "receivable" or "credit" in finance. However, since the sentence describes them as pahalı (expensive), it makes much more sense contextually to translate it as "the things we will buy" rather than "our receivables."
How would the sentence change if we wanted to say "What we BOUGHT is expensive"?
You would replace the future participle -acak with the past/present participle -dık. The word would become aldıklarımız (al- + -dık + -lar + -ımız), making the sentence: Döviz piyasasında aldıklarımız pahalı.
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