Learn Turkish: Arabamın batarya kapasitesi çok küçük, bu yüzden uzun yolculuk yapmıyorum. - My car's battery capacity is very small, that's why I don't make long trips.

Word

Arabamın batarya kapasitesi çok küçük, bu yüzden uzun yolculuk yapmıyorum.

Meaning

My car's battery capacity is very small, that's why I don't make long trips.

Part of speech

sentence

Pronunciation

Course

Turkish

Lesson

How much and how long (ne kadar)

Breakdown of Arabamın batarya kapasitesi çok küçük, bu yüzden uzun yolculuk yapmıyorum.

Questions & Answers about Arabamın batarya kapasitesi çok küçük, bu yüzden uzun yolculuk yapmıyorum.

How do the suffixes work in the three-word phrase Arabamın batarya kapasitesi?

This is a chained noun phrase. First, batarya kapasitesi (battery capacity) is a basic compound linked by the possessive suffix -si on kapasite. To say it belongs to your car, you add the genitive (owner) suffix -ın to arabam (my car). The final phrase literally acts as 'my car's [battery-capacity]'.

How would I use this lesson's question word, ne kadar, to ask 'How small?' or 'How long?' about things in this sentence?

You can place ne kadar directly before the adjective. To ask 'How small is the capacity?', you say Kapasite ne kadar küçük? To ask 'How long is the trip?', you say Yolculuk ne kadar uzun?

Why is uzun yolculuk singular here, even though the English translation says 'long trips'?

In Turkish, when you make a general statement about doing a type of activity, the noun usually stays singular. Saying uzun yolculuk yapmıyorum (literally 'I do not make long trip') is the most natural way to talk about the general concept of long-distance travel without specifying individual trips.

What is the literal meaning of bu yüzden?

Bu means 'this', and yüzden comes from yüz (which can mean 'face', 'side', or 'cause/reason') plus the 'from' suffix -den. Literally meaning 'from this cause' or 'because of this', it is the standard way to say 'that is why' or 'therefore' in Turkish.