Breakdown of Asıl sorun olan arzdı. Öngörülerimiz değişecekti.
olmak
to be
değişmek
to change (intransitive, undergo change)
sorun
problem
asıl
real, actual
öngörü
forecast / prediction (foresight, anticipation)
arz
supply
Questions & Answers about Asıl sorun olan arzdı. Öngörülerimiz değişecekti.
How would we use the conjunction nitekim (the focus of this lesson) with these two sentences?
You would put it at the start of the second sentence: Asıl sorun olan arzdı. Nitekim öngörülerimiz değişecekti. This translates to "...And sure enough, our forecasts were going to change." We use nitekim here because the second sentence confirms or acts as the natural consequence of the fact established in the first sentence.
Why use olan here instead of just saying Asıl sorun arzdı?
Saying Asıl sorun arzdı is completely correct and means "The actual problem was supply." Adding the relative participle olan ("that which is") makes it slightly more emphatic: "The thing that was the actual problem was supply." It puts a heavier spotlight on arz as the specific culprit.
How is the word öngörülerimiz constructed?
It is a compound word made from ön (front/pre-) and görü (vision/sight, derived from the verb görmek), creating öngörü (forecast/foresight). Then it takes the plural suffix -ler and the first-person plural possessive -imiz to mean "our forecasts."
What suffixes are combining in the verb değişecekti to give it this meaning?
It combines the future tense suffix -ecek with the past tense suffix -ti. This stacks the tenses to create the "future in the past" (past prospective) tense. It tells us what was expected to happen from a past perspective, perfectly translating to "were going to change" or "would change."
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