Breakdown of Şu tekinsiz adam hakkında nereye gidersek gidelim yeni bir ihbar duyuyoruz.
bir
a / an
şu
that (pointed out)
adam
man
yeni
new
Questions & Answers about Şu tekinsiz adam hakkında nereye gidersek gidelim yeni bir ihbar duyuyoruz.
Since this lesson is about birtakım, how could we use it in this sentence instead of yeni bir ihbar?
You could say birtakım yeni ihbarlar duyuyoruz (we hear a number of new tip-offs). Remember that birtakım is written as one word when it means 'some' or 'a certain number of,' and it usually takes a plural noun. If you wrote them separately as bir takım, it would literally mean 'one team' or 'one suit.'
How does the structure nereye gidersek gidelim translate to 'no matter where we go'?
This is a fixed pattern for 'no matter' clauses in Turkish. It uses a question word like nereye (where to), followed by the verb in the conditional gidersek (if we go), and then the same verb in the optative or imperative form gidelim (let us go). Literally, it acts like 'wherever if we go, let us go.'
Why does the sentence use Şu instead of O for 'that eerie man'?
While O is the standard word for 'that,' Şu draws more immediate attention to the subject. Using Şu here conveys a sense of pointing someone out in the speakers' shared context, or expressing a slight distance and distaste which perfectly matches the adjective tekinsiz (creepy).
The word tekinsiz means 'eerie' here. What is its root?