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Kesin bir karar verecekken katalogdan yeni bir motif seçtim.

Kesin bir karar verecekken katalogdan yeni bir motif seçtim.
Just as I was about to make a final decision, I chose a new motif from the catalog.
From Lesson 234:Interrupted intentions (-acakken / -ecekken)·Turkish

Questions & Answers about Kesin bir karar verecekken katalogdan yeni bir motif seçtim.

How do we know it means "Just as I was about to..." when verecekken doesn't have a personal ending for "I"?
The suffix -ken (while/when) never takes personal endings. To find out who is doing the action, you have to look at the main verb of the sentence. Since the main verb is seçtim (I chose), we know the hidden subject of verecekken is also "I".
Why is the future tense suffix -ecek used in verecekken if this all happened in the past?
To express an "interrupted intention" (being just about to do something), Turkish pairs the future suffix -ecek / -acak with -ken. Even though the event happened in the past (as shown by seçtim), at that exact moment in the story, the decision was still in the future.
In English we "make" a decision. What verb is used here in Turkish?
Turkish uses the verb vermek (to give) for making decisions. So "to make a decision" is karar vermek (literally "to give a decision").
Notice the word order in kesin bir karar and yeni bir motif. Why isn't it bir kesin karar?
In Turkish, when a noun has both a descriptive adjective (like kesin or yeni) and the indefinite article bir (a/an), the adjective almost always comes first. The standard pattern is Adjective + bir + Noun.

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