Breakdown of Falda ne çıkacakmış?
ne
what
çıkmak
to go out / to leave / to exit / to break out / to arise (of a storm)
fal
fortune / fortune-telling
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Questions & Answers about Falda ne çıkacakmış?
How does çıkacakmış combine the future tense and the hearsay suffix?
It uses the inferential future tense, combining the future suffix -acak and the hearsay suffix -mış. You use -acakmış when talking about a future event you heard about from someone else. Here, the speaker is asking what was predicted or what someone said will happen.
What is the exact difference between Falda ne çıkacak? and Falda ne çıkacakmış?
Falda ne çıkacak? simply means 'What will appear in the fortune?' You might ask this before the cup is even read. By adding the hearsay suffix to make çıkacakmış, you are asking about a prediction that has already been made by the fortune teller, essentially asking, 'What did they tell you will appear?'
I learned that çıkmak means 'to exit'. Why is it translated as 'appear' here?
The verb çıkmak is very versatile. While its basic meaning is 'to exit' or 'to go out', it is commonly used to mean 'to appear', 'to turn up', or 'to result' when talking about fortunes (fal), lottery tickets, or test results. Falda çıkmak is the natural way to say a symbol or event appeared in a fortune reading.