Breakdown of Yemekler harikaydı, servis hızlıydı; kısacası her şey mükemmeldi.
her
every
hızlı
fast
harika
wonderful
şey
thing
mükemmel
perfect
servis
service (maintenance, shuttle, table)
yemek
food, meal
kısacası
in short
Questions & Answers about Yemekler harikaydı, servis hızlıydı; kısacası her şey mükemmeldi.
The current lesson is about hatta (even/in fact), but this sentence uses kısacası. How do they compare?
While hatta escalates or adds a surprising extra point, kısacası summarizes what was just said. It comes from kısa (short) and means 'in short'. You would use hatta if you were escalating a single point, like 'Yemekler harikaydı, hatta mükemmeldi!' (The food was wonderful, in fact it was perfect!). Here, we are summarizing multiple good things instead.
Why do harikaydı and hızlıydı have a 'y' before the past tense ending, but mükemmeldi doesn't?
This is a reminder of how the past tense form of 'to be' (-di/-dı) works. Because harika and hızlı end in vowels, we need the buffer letter -y- to attach the suffix (harika-y-dı, hızlı-y-dı). Mükemmel ends in a consonant, so the suffix attaches directly (mükemmel-di).
How is the word kısacası formed?
It is built from the adjective kısa (short). It gets the adverb-forming suffix -ca and the possessive suffix -sı. You can think of it as literally meaning 'the short of it.' It is a very common set phrase used to wrap up or summarize a thought.
Does her şey (everything) always take a singular predicate like mükemmeldi?
Yes! In Turkish, phrases with her (every) or hiçbir (none) are treated as grammatically singular. That is why it is mükemmeldi and not mükemmellerdi.
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