Word
İtfaiyeci telsizden haberi duyar duymaz müdahale etmek için yola çıktı.
Meaning
As soon as the firefighter heard the news on the radio, he set off to intervene.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of İtfaiyeci telsizden haberi duyar duymaz müdahale etmek için yola çıktı.
yol
road
çıkmak
to go out / to leave / to exit / to break out / to arise (of a storm)
için
for
duymak
to hear
Questions & Answers about İtfaiyeci telsizden haberi duyar duymaz müdahale etmek için yola çıktı.
How does duyar duymaz mean "as soon as he heard"?
This uses the "immediacy" pattern taught in this lesson: the aorist positive (duyar) followed immediately by the aorist negative (duymaz) of the same verb. It roughly translates to "the moment he hears and doesn't hear"—meaning "as soon as." Notice that the phrase duyar duymaz itself doesn't have a past tense marker; it takes its time frame from the main verb of the sentence (çıktı).
The translation says "on the radio," but telsizden uses the "from" ending. Why is that?
In English, we hear things "on" the radio or TV, but in Turkish, information comes from a source. Therefore, you use the ablative case -den (from) with telsiz (wireless two-way radio). The firefighter is hearing the news from the radio.
Why is there an -i at the end of haberi?
This is the specific accusative case suffix. The firefighter didn't just hear some news; he heard the specific news (haberi). Because haber (news) is the direct object of the verb duymak (to hear) and it is specific, it needs the accusative ending.
How does müdahale etmek için mean "to intervene"?