Word
Adres yazılamadı, kurye merkezi arıyor olacak.
Meaning
The address couldn't be written; the courier must be calling the center.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Adres yazılamadı, kurye merkezi arıyor olacak.
yazmak
to write
olmak
to be
aramak
to look for, to call
merkez
center
Questions & Answers about Adres yazılamadı, kurye merkezi arıyor olacak.
Why does arıyor olacak translate to 'must be calling' instead of 'will be calling'?
While it literally translates to 'will be calling', Turkish frequently uses the future tense suffix -(y)AcAk to express a strong assumption or logical deduction about a present situation. Just like in English where we say 'they must be calling' or 'they are probably calling' right now, Turkish uses olacak to show this epistemic expectation.
Can you break down the suffixes in yazılamadı?
The root is yaz (write). We add the passive suffix -ıl to get yazıl (be written). The 'could not' meaning comes from the inability marker -a right before the negative marker -ma, creating yazıl-a-ma (not able to be written). Finally, we add the past tense -dı to make it yazılamadı.
Why does the verb ara (to call) change to arı in arıyor?
This is a phonetic rule called vowel narrowing. When a verb stem ends in a wide unrounded vowel like a or e, and is followed by the present continuous suffix -Iyor, that wide vowel narrows. Here, the final a in ara- narrows to ı, resulting in arıyor.
Why is it merkezi rather than just merkez?