Question 1

How does ne kadar mean "how large" in this sentence?

Accepted Answer

The phrase ne kadar usually means "how much" or "how long". But when you put it right before an adjective like büyük (big/large), it acts as a degree modifier meaning "how". So ne kadar büyük translates to "how large" (literally, "how much big").

Question 2

Could I just say ne büyük instead of ne kadar büyük to ask "how big"?

Accepted Answer

No, because dropping kadar changes the phrase from a question to an exclamation! Saying ne büyük! means "How big!" or "What a big...!" To ask a genuine question about the size or degree of something, you must use ne kadar büyük.

Question 3

Why do we need the suffixes -nın on batarya and -si on kapasite?

Accepted Answer

This is a definite noun compound linking two nouns to show possession. Batarya gets the genitive suffix -nın to mean "the battery's", and kapasite gets the third-person possessive suffix -si to mean "its capacity". Together, they form bataryanın kapasitesi (the battery's capacity).

Question 4

Why isn't there a word for "is" at the end of the sentence?

Accepted Answer

In Turkish, the third-person present tense "is" is often implied without any suffix at all. You could technically add the "to be" suffix -tür to make it büyüktür, but leaving it off is very common and sounds completely natural in everyday questions.

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