Breakdown of Kargo şu an depoda olacak, tahmini varış saati değişmedi.
şu
that (pointed out)
olmak
to be
saat
hour / o'clock
kargo
package / shipping / delivery
değişmek
to change (intransitive, undergo change)
an
moment
varış
arrival
depo
warehouse
tahmini
estimated
Questions & Answers about Kargo şu an depoda olacak, tahmini varış saati değişmedi.
Why does the future tense word olacak translate to "must be" instead of "will be"?
This is the main point of this lesson! The future tense suffix -AcAk can be used to make a strong logical deduction about the present. By pairing olacak with şu an (right now), the speaker isn't talking about the future; they are saying that based on the schedule, it "must be" or "is expected to be" at the warehouse at this very moment.
Could I use olmalı instead of olacak to mean "must be" in this sentence?
Yes, depoda olmalı is perfectly valid and also translates to "must be at the warehouse." However, using olacak sounds like a confident expectation based on a calculated schedule, whereas olmalı can sometimes feel like a simpler guess or a statement of necessity.
What exactly is the -i at the end of tahmini? Is it an accusative case marker or a possessive suffix?
Neither! Here, -i is an adjective-forming suffix borrowed from Arabic. It turns the noun tahmin (guess/estimate) into the adjective tahmini (estimated/approximate). It directly modifies the noun compound varış saati (arrival time).
Why does saat get the -i suffix in varış saati?
This is a standard indefinite noun compound. Varış (the verbal noun for arriving) acts as a category for saat (time/hour). To link them into the single concept of "arrival time," Turkish requires the 3rd person possessive suffix -i on the second noun.
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