Learn Turkish: Ekip büyük bir hırsla, savaşırcasına çalışıyor. - The team is working with great ambition, as if fighting.

It is built from the verb savaşmak (to fight). To use the suffix -casına / -çasına (as if / as though) with a verb, you first put the verb into the aorist (simple present) tense base. Here, savaş becomes savaşır. Adding -casına gives us savaşırcasına, which describes an extreme manner of doing something.

Could I just say savaşır gibi instead of savaşırcasına?

Yes, savaşır gibi is a more common, everyday way to say "as if fighting." However, the -casına suffix adds a literary, dramatic intensity that perfectly matches the extreme emotion of büyük bir hırsla (with great ambition).

Why does bir come after the adjective büyük rather than before it?

In Turkish, when an adjective and the indefinite article bir (a/an) modify the same noun, the standard word order is Adjective + bir + Noun. That is why it is büyük bir hırsla (with a great ambition) instead of bir büyük hırsla.

What role does the suffix -la play in the word hırsla?