Breakdown of Yaşlı kadın yarın bize fal bakacakmış.
kadın
woman
biz
we
yaşlı
old (people)
yarın
tomorrow
bakmak
to look
fal
fortune / fortune-telling
Questions & Answers about Yaşlı kadın yarın bize fal bakacakmış.
How does bakacakmış change the meaning compared to just bakacak?
bakacakmış combines the future tense suffix (-acak) with the reported/inferential suffix (-mış). If you just said bakacak, it would mean she is definitely going to do it. By adding -mış, you are adding the meaning of apparently or supposedly. It shows you heard this plan from someone else.
Why does the sentence use bakmak (to look) for reading fortunes?
In Turkish, you do not use the verb okumak (to read) for fortunes. The word fal means fortune (like in coffee grounds or tarot cards), and the set phrase for fortune-telling is fal bakmak, which literally translates to looking at fortunes.
Why is it bize (to us) instead of bizi (us)?
The verb bakmak requires the dative case to show who or what is being looked at. In this context, she is looking at fortunes for us or towards us. Therefore, the pronoun biz (we) takes the dative suffix to become bize (to us).
Why does fal come directly before the verb instead of bize?
When a noun and a verb form a common set phrase like fal bakmak, they are usually kept together, with the general noun placed directly before the verb. If you separated them and put bize right before the verb, it would sound like the fortune itself is going to look at us!
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