Breakdown of Kızgın arkadaşlar şimdi barışıyormuş.
arkadaş
friend
şimdi
now
kızgın
angry (mad, furious)
barışmak
to reconcile / to make peace
Questions & Answers about Kızgın arkadaşlar şimdi barışıyormuş.
How does the ending of barışıyormuş give us the meaning "apparently"?
It combines the present continuous suffix -ıyor (doing) with the inferential suffix -muş (I heard / it seems). When you stack them into -ıyormuş, it means an action is happening right now, but you are reporting it based on hearsay or indirect knowledge instead of witnessing it yourself.
Why is şimdi (now) used with -muş, which we previously learned as a past tense suffix?
When -miş or -muş attaches directly to a verb root, it usually expresses past hearsay (e.g., "I heard they made peace"). But here, it attaches to the present continuous suffix -ıyor. The -ıyor locks the action into the present (şimdi), and the -muş simply adds the "I heard" or "apparently" flavor to that ongoing action.
The subject is plural (arkadaşlar). Why doesn't the verb end in -lar (barışıyormuşlar)?
In Turkish, when a subject is explicitly stated and already has the plural suffix -lar (like arkadaşlar), you generally drop the plural suffix on the verb. Saying barışıyormuş is perfectly natural and more common, though barışıyormuşlar wouldn't be grammatically wrong for human subjects.
Isn't barış the noun for "peace"? How is it being used as a verb here?