Learn Turkish: Baban bu hurdanın pırıl pırıl olduğunu fark etmiş olacak. - Your father will have realized that this wreck is gleaming.

Baban bu hurdanın pırıl pırıl olduğunu fark etmiş olacak.

Your father will have realized that this wreck is gleaming.

Breakdown of Baban bu hurdanın pırıl pırıl olduğunu fark etmiş olacak.

Questions & Answers about Baban bu hurdanın pırıl pırıl olduğunu fark etmiş olacak.

How does the future perfect tense work in fark etmiş olacak?

This uses the exact structure from your current lesson! You take the verb stem et (from the compound verb fark etmek, to realize), add the perfect suffix -miş, and follow it with the future auxiliary olacak (will be). Together, they form the future perfect meaning: "will have realized."

Why is olduğunu used here to mean "that it is"?

To say "that [something] is [something]" in Turkish, you turn the verb into a noun clause using the participle suffix -dık. Here, ol (to be) becomes olduğu (its being). We then add the buffer -n- and the accusative case ending -u to make olduğunu, because this whole "that" clause is the direct object of the main verb fark etmek.

Why does hurda (wreck) take the genitive suffix to become hurdanın?

In Turkish noun clauses made with the -dık suffix, the subject of that inner clause almost always takes the genitive (possessive) case. So, instead of saying "the wreck being gleaming," Turkish grammar literally phrases it as "the wreck's being gleaming" (hurdanın ... olduğunu).

What kind of phrase is pırıl pırıl?