Word
Kargo şu an depoda olacak, tahmini varış saati değişmedi.
Meaning
The cargo must be at the warehouse right now; the estimated arrival time didn't change.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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
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?