Breakdown of Sence yarın yağmur yağacak mı?
yağmur
rain
yağmak
to rain / to snow
yarın
tomorrow
mi
question particle (mı/mi/mu/mü)
sence
in your opinion (informal)
Questions & Answers about Sence yarın yağmur yağacak mı?
Why does the Turkish sentence use sence instead of a verb for "Do you think"?
In English, we ask "Do you think...", but Turkish often handles this with the suffix -ce or -ca. When added to a pronoun, it means "according to" or "in the opinion of". So, sence literally means "according to you" or "in your opinion".
Why are there two words for rain (yağmur yağacak)? Doesn't yağacak just mean "it will rain"?
The verb yağmak actually means "to precipitate" or "to fall from the sky". Because it can also be used for snow (kar yağmak) or hail (dolu yağmak), Turkish speakers usually specify what is falling. Yağmur yağacak literally translates to "rain will rain".
Our current lesson is about the -mış suffix for things we've heard. How could we use that here to say "I heard it will rain tomorrow"?
You can stack the reported -mış suffix right on top of the future tense! If you take out the question particle and change the verb to yağacakmış, the sentence becomes Yarın yağmur yağacakmış. This translates to "Apparently (or I heard) it will rain tomorrow."
Why is the question particle mı used here instead of mi?
The yes/no question particle is written as a separate word, but it still follows 4-way vowel harmony based on the word right before it. Since the last vowel in yağacak is an a, the particle must be mı.
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