Breakdown of O, sanki ipi pelerininin altında saklıyor gibi yürüyor.
o
that / he / she / it
yürümek
to walk
alt
bottom
gibi
like (similar to)
saklamak
to hide / to keep
sanki
as if
ip
rope / string (thin)
pelerin
cape / cloak
Questions & Answers about O, sanki ipi pelerininin altında saklıyor gibi yürüyor.
How does the grammar of saklıyor gibi work in this sentence?
This is the structure you are learning in this lesson: a verb in the present continuous tense plus gibi. It translates to 'as if doing something'. Here, saklıyor gibi acts as an adverb modifying the main verb yürüyor, telling us exactly how he is walking.
Why do we have both sanki and gibi here? Don't they both mean the same thing?
Yes, they both give the meaning of 'as if'. In Turkish, it is very common to pair them up by putting sanki near the beginning of the thought and gibi right after the verb. This emphasizes the imaginary nature of the action. You could drop sanki and the sentence would still mean exactly the same thing.
The dictionary form for 'to hide' is saklamak. Why is it spelled saklıyor here instead of saklayor?
This is a great review of vowel narrowing. When a verb stem ends in the broad vowels a or e and is directly followed by the continuous suffix -Iyor, that final vowel narrows. Here, the a at the end of sakla narrows to ı, giving us saklıyor.
Can you break down all the suffixes on pelerininin altında?
This phrase uses a genitive-possessive chain to say 'under his cape' (literally 'at the bottom of his cape'). It breaks down as pelerin (cape) + -i (his) + -nin (genitive linking suffix), followed by alt (bottom) + -ı (its) + -nda (locative case meaning 'in' or 'at').
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