Breakdown of Arabası herhalde kazada hasar görmüştür.
araba
car
kaza
accident
herhalde
probably / I suppose
hasar
damage
hasar görmek
to undergo / suffer (damage)
Questions & Answers about Arabası herhalde kazada hasar görmüştür.
Why use görmüştür instead of just gördü or görmüş?
The suffix -tür here is the epistemic -DIr ending, which expresses a strong guess or assumption. When you attach it to the -mIş past tense, it translates to "must have been" or "probably was". If you just used gördü, it would mean you know for an absolute fact that it was damaged.
If herhalde already means "probably", isn't adding the -tür suffix redundant?
It might feel redundant in English, but it's very natural in Turkish! Adverbs of probability like herhalde (probably) or belki (maybe) are frequently paired with the -DIr suffix on the verb. They work together to emphasize that the statement is an assumption.
Why does the sentence use the verb görmek (to see) for a car being damaged?
In Turkish, "to be damaged" is expressed with the compound verb hasar görmek (literally "to see damage"). The verb görmek is often used this way to describe experiencing a condition, similar to zarar görmek (to be harmed / to suffer a loss).
What does the -sı in arabası do here?
It is the third-person possessive suffix. Even though the pronoun onun (his/her) is dropped from the beginning of the sentence, the -sı on araba tells us we are talking specifically about "his car" (or her car), rather than just "the car".
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