Word
Bu inanca göre tanrı dünyayı altı günde yaratmış.
Meaning
According to this belief, god created the world in six days.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Bu inanca göre tanrı dünyayı altı günde yaratmış.
bu
this
altı
six
gün
day
göre
according to / compared to
Questions & Answers about Bu inanca göre tanrı dünyayı altı günde yaratmış.
Why is yaratmış used here instead of the regular past tense yarattı?
The suffix -mış is the evidential or "hearsay" past tense. It is used for events the speaker didn't witness firsthand, such as stories, myths, or reporting what others say. Since this sentence is describing a story "according to a belief", yaratmış is the natural choice.
Why does the word inanç become inanca here?
The word for "belief" is inanç. The postposition göre ("according to") always requires the word before it to take the dative case (-a or -e). When we add -a to inanç, the final hard consonant ç softens to a c, resulting in inanca.
Why is there a -yı on the end of dünyayı?
Dünya (world) is the direct object of the verb yaratmış (created). Because it refers to a specific, known thing (the world), it must take the definite accusative case. We add the buffer consonant -y- to prevent two vowels from meeting, followed by the accusative suffix -ı.
How does altı günde mean "in six days"? Doesn't the locative -de usually mean "at" or "on"?