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Kehanet doğruysa, büyük bir felaket başlayacakmış.

Kehanet doğruysa, büyük bir felaket başlayacakmış.
If the prophecy is true, a great disaster will apparently begin.
From Lesson 219:Hearsay future tense (-acakmış)·Turkish

Questions & Answers about Kehanet doğruysa, büyük bir felaket başlayacakmış.

What exactly does the ending -acakmış in başlayacakmış mean?
It combines the future tense -acak ('will') with the hearsay suffix -mış ('apparently' or 'I heard that'). Together, they mean that something is said or expected to happen in the future, based on a report or rumor. Here, it translates to 'will apparently begin.'
Why is there a -y- in the middle of başlayacakmış?
The verb root is başla- (to begin), which ends in a vowel. The future tense suffix -acak starts with a vowel. In Turkish, you cannot put these two vowels right next to each other, so the buffer letter -y- is used to connect them: başla + y + acak + mış.
How does doğruysa translate to 'if it is true'?
Doğru means 'true' or 'correct.' To say 'if it is...', we attach the conditional suffix -sa or -se. Because doğru ends in a vowel, we need the buffer -y- before adding the suffix, giving us doğru + y + sa.
Why is the word order büyük bir felaket and not bir büyük felaket?
In Turkish, when an adjective modifies a noun with the indefinite article bir (a/an), the adjective almost always comes before bir. So the structure is Adjective + bir + Noun, exactly as we see in this sentence.

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