Word
Yarın akşam şüpheci ama maceracı bir kadınla buluşuyorum.
Meaning
Tomorrow evening I am meeting a skeptical but adventurous woman.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Yarın akşam şüpheci ama maceracı bir kadınla buluşuyorum.
bir
a / an
kadın
woman
yarın
tomorrow
akşam
evening
Questions & Answers about Yarın akşam şüpheci ama maceracı bir kadınla buluşuyorum.
The suffix -cI usually forms professions like işçi (worker). How does it mean 'skeptical' and 'adventurous' in şüpheci and maceracı?
While the -cI (or -çI) suffix often creates professional nouns, it is also used to describe a person's habitual behavior, personality trait, or ideology. Şüphe means doubt, so a şüpheci is someone who habitually doubts (skeptical). Macera means adventure, making a maceracı an adventurous person.
Why is bir placed after the adjectives (şüpheci ama maceracı bir kadınla) instead of at the very beginning?
In Turkish, when a noun is modified by both a descriptive adjective and the indefinite article bir (a/an), the standard word order is Adjective + bir + Noun. Putting bir at the very beginning (bir şüpheci kadın) is grammatically possible but emphasizes the number 'one' rather than the article 'a'.
Why does the sentence use kadınla (with a woman) instead of a direct object like kadını?
The verb buluşmak (to meet up / to get together) requires the postposition ile (with). While in English you 'meet someone', in Turkish you 'meet with someone'. Here, ile attaches directly to the noun, dropping its 'i' and following vowel harmony to turn kadın ile into kadınla.