Breakdown of Tavrı çok belli, demek ki bize kızgın.
biz
we
çok
very
kızgın
angry (mad, furious)
tavır
attitude / manner
belli
obvious / clear
demek ki
so / it means that
Questions & Answers about Tavrı çok belli, demek ki bize kızgın.
How does demek ki work in this sentence?
Demek ki translates to "it means that" or "so" when making a logical deduction. The speaker observes the obvious attitude (tavrı çok belli) and uses demek ki to introduce their conclusion: he must be angry at us (bize kızgın).
Why is it tavrı and not "tavırı"?
The dictionary word is tavır (attitude/manner). When we add a suffix starting with a vowel, like the 3rd person possessive -ı (his/her attitude), the vowel in the second syllable of the root drops. This is called vowel omission, which commonly happens with certain two-syllable nouns in Turkish.
Why do we use bize (to us) instead of "bizi" (us) here?
In Turkish, the adjective kızgın (angry) and the verb kızmak (to get angry) require the dative case (-e/-a). You are angry "to" someone rather than "at" them. Therefore, "angry at us" translates to bize kızgın.
There is no "o" (he/she) in this sentence. How do we know who is angry?
Turkish often drops pronouns. We can figure out it is a third person (he/she) because of the possessive suffix in tavrı (his/her attitude) and the fact that kızgın has no personal ending like -ım (I) or -sın (you). Without an ending, it defaults to "he/she/it is".
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