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Questions & Answers about Kimse kaderden kaçmayacakmış.
How does the ending work in kaçmayacakmış?
It combines three suffixes on the root kaç (escape): the negative -ma, the future tense -yacak, and the inferential suffix -mış. Together, they express something you heard or gathered about the future. In this sentence, it means "apparently [someone] will not escape."
Why is the verb negative if the English translation uses "no one"?
The Turkish pronoun kimse actually means "anyone." To say "no one," Turkish requires you to use kimse as the subject of a negative verb. Literally, this sentence translates to "Anyone will not escape from fate."
Why is the ablative suffix -den attached to kader?
The verb kaçmak (to escape, to run away) always takes the ablative case (-dan or -den) for the thing you are escaping from. While English says "escape fate," Turkish logic requires escaping "from" fate, hence kaderden.
Why use the hearsay suffix -mış for a general statement about fate?
Adding -mış shows that the speaker is quoting someone else's belief, repeating a saying they just heard, or summarizing the moral of a story. If the speaker were stating their own direct, firm belief about fate, they would just use the standard future tense and say kaçmayacak.