Word
Kehanet doğruysa, büyük bir felaket başlayacakmış.
Meaning
If the prophecy is true, a great disaster will apparently begin.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Kehanet doğruysa, büyük bir felaket başlayacakmış.
bir
a / an
büyük
big
başlamak
to begin, to start
felaket
disaster / catastrophe
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?