Word
Kara bulutlar gelecekmiş ve felaket bizim kaderimiz olacakmış.
Meaning
They say black clouds will come and disaster will be our fate.
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Breakdown of Kara bulutlar gelecekmiş ve felaket bizim kaderimiz olacakmış.
biz
we
ve
and
gelmek
to come
olmak
to be
Questions & Answers about Kara bulutlar gelecekmiş ve felaket bizim kaderimiz olacakmış.
How do gelecekmiş and olacakmış translate to "They say... will..."?
These verbs combine the future tense suffix -ecek / -acak ("will") with the inferential/hearsay suffix -miş / -mış ("apparently" or "I heard"). Together, they show that something will happen in the future, but you are reporting it based on what you heard from someone else, rather than stating it as your own direct prediction.
What kind of real-life context fits the tone of this sentence?
Because of the hearsay suffix -miş, the speaker isn't making this dramatic prediction themselves; they are passing on someone else's words. This sounds exactly like a person recounting a fortune-teller's reading, a dark prophecy, or a very gloomy rumor.
The subject is kara bulutlar (black clouds), which is plural. Why is the verb gelecekmiş and not geleceklermiş?
In Turkish grammar, when a plural subject is not human (such as animals, objects, or nature), the verb usually stays in the singular form. Since bulutlar are non-human, the singular verb gelecekmiş is standard.
Why is bizim included in bizim kaderimiz? Doesn't the suffix on kaderimiz already mean "our"?