Word
Dikkatli sürdüğümüz sürece kazada yaralanmayız.
Meaning
As long as we drive carefully, we won't get injured in an accident.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Dikkatli sürdüğümüz sürece kazada yaralanmayız.
dikkatli
careful
kaza
accident
sürmek
to drive / to ride
sürece
as long as
Questions & Answers about Dikkatli sürdüğümüz sürece kazada yaralanmayız.
The current lesson is about the approximative verb form -(y)Ayazmak. How could we change the end of this sentence to say "we almost got injured"?
You would attach the approximative suffix to the passive verb stem yaralan- (to be injured). Adding the suffix gives yaralanayaz-, and applying the past tense and first-person plural ending gives us yaralanayazdık (we almost got injured).
How does sürdüğümüz sürece translate to "as long as we drive"?
The grammatical structure -dIğI sürece combines the object participle (-dIğI) and the word sürece (for the duration). Literally, sürdüğümüz sürece means "for the duration that we drive." This is the standard B2-level way to express "as long as" or "provided that" in Turkish.
Why does this sentence use the negative aorist tense (yaralanmayız) for the outcome instead of the future tense (yaralanmayacağız)?
While the future tense would also be grammatically correct, the aorist is heavily preferred in conditional-style statements to express a general rule, a natural consequence, or a confident guarantee. It implies "as a rule, we won't get injured" rather than a one-off future prediction.
Can you break down the exact suffixes inside the verb yaralanmayız?