Breakdown of Herkes dağıldıktan sonra stantlar ve vitrinler bomboş kaldı.
ve
and
kalmak
to stay / to be left / to remain (in a state)
sonra
after
herkes
everyone
Questions & Answers about Herkes dağıldıktan sonra stantlar ve vitrinler bomboş kaldı.
How does herkes fit into the current lesson about indefinite pronouns, and could I have used kimisi ... kimisi ... here?
Herkes (everyone) is a universal indefinite pronoun. While the current lesson focuses on kimisi ... kimisi ... (some ... some ...), you could rephrase this situation to use them if you wanted to highlight different actions: Kimisi eve gitti, kimisi parka, stantlar bomboş kaldı (Some went home, some to the park, the booths remained completely empty). Since the sentence groups everyone into a single action (dispersing), herkes is the natural choice.
Why is it dağıldıktan and not just dağıldan before sonra?
To say 'after doing something' in Turkish, you must use the structure -DIktAn attached to the verb root, before the word sonra. It is made up of the verbal noun suffix -DIk plus the ablative case -tAn (from). So, dağıl-dık-tan sonra works logically like saying 'after from the dispersing'.
I know boş means 'empty'. Why is it bomboş instead of çok boş?
Turkish frequently uses special prefixes (usually adding m, p, r, or s to the first syllable of an adjective) to intensify a meaning. Bomboş means 'completely empty'. It sounds much more natural, native, and emphatic than saying çok boş (very empty).
Is kaldı the only way to say 'remained', or could I use (became) here?