Breakdown of Yönetmene göre, film daha çok hasılat yapabilirdi.
çok
a lot of / many
yapmak
to do / to make
film
movie
daha
more
göre
according to / compared to
yönetmen
director
hasılat
box office gross / revenue (proceeds, yield)
Questions & Answers about Yönetmene göre, film daha çok hasılat yapabilirdi.
How does yapabilirdi give us the meaning of "could have made"?
It combines the verb root yap (make/do) with the ability suffix -abil, the aorist suffix -ir, and the past tense suffix -di. In Turkish, combining the ability suffix with the aorist past creates a counterfactual meaning. It expresses something that had the potential to happen in the past but ultimately did not happen, exactly like "could have" in English.
What is the difference between yapabilirdi and yapabildi here?
This is a crucial distinction! Yapabilirdi (using the aorist -ir) means the film could have made more money, but implies it missed the chance and didn't. If the sentence used yapabildi (using just the definite past tense -di), it would mean the film actually managed to make more money, describing a completed, successful action.
Is the word hasılat only used for movie box office numbers?
No, hasılat generally means "revenue," "yield," or "receipts." While it is the standard term for a film's box office gross, you will also hear it in business to mean a shop's daily takings, or in agriculture for crop yields. We pair it with the verb yapmak to mean "to generate revenue."
Why is it yönetmene instead of just yönetmen?
The postposition göre (according to) always requires the word before it to take the dative case (direction towards). Since yönetmen (director) ends in a consonant, we add the dative suffix -e, making it yönetmene göre (according to the director).
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