Breakdown of Maçı kazanır kazanmaz birbirlerini doyasıya kucakladılar.
maç
match / game (sports)
kazanmak
to earn / to win
birbiri
each other / one another
doymak
to be full (sated)
Questions & Answers about Maçı kazanır kazanmaz birbirlerini doyasıya kucakladılar.
How does the new suffix -(y)AsIyA work in the word doyasıya?
The root is doy-, meaning to get full or to be satiated. Adding the limit converb -asıya creates a word that literally means "until getting full." In English, we naturally translate this extreme duration as "to one's heart's content" or "fully."
What is the grammar behind kazanır kazanmaz to mean "as soon as"?
This uses the aorist tense in a positive-negative pair: the verb root plus the positive aorist -Ir (kazanır), immediately followed by the verb root plus the negative aorist -mAz (kazanmaz). Together, this structure means "the exact moment [verb] happens" or "as soon as."
kazanır kazanmaz uses the aorist (present) tense, but the translation is "As soon as they won." Why is that?
The -Ir -mAz structure doesn't lock the action into the present tense. It is a timeless converb that automatically takes on the time frame of the main verb in the sentence. Since kucakladılar (they embraced) is in the past tense, the winning is also understood as happening in the past.
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