Breakdown of Salonumuz sadeleşti ve gerçekten güzelleşti.
ve
and
salon
living room
gerçekten
really
sadeleşmek
to become simple / to become minimalist
Questions & Answers about Salonumuz sadeleşti ve gerçekten güzelleşti.
Both sadeleşti and güzelleşti end in -leşti. How exactly does the -leş suffix change the meaning of these words?
The suffix -laş / -leş attaches to a noun or adjective to create a verb meaning "to become [that adjective/noun]" (this is called an inchoative verb). Here, it attaches to the adjectives sade (simple) and güzel (beautiful), turning them into the verbs sadeleşmek (to become simpler) and güzelleşmek (to become more beautiful). The -ti at the exact end is just the past tense suffix.
Why do both verbs take -leş instead of -laş?
This suffix follows standard 2-way vowel harmony. Because the final vowels in both sade and güzel are front vowels ('e'), the suffix takes the front-vowel form -leş. If you were attaching it to a word with a back vowel (a, ı, o, u), like uzak (far), you would use -laş, forming uzaklaşmak (to become distant / to move away).
I recognize gerçek as "real" or "truth", but why does it have the "from" suffix (-ten) here to mean "truly"?
Adding the ablative suffix (-dan / -den / -tan / -ten) to certain nouns or adjectives is a very common way to build adverbs in Turkish. Here, gerçek (real) turns into the adverb gerçekten (really / truly). Another familiar example of this pattern is iç (inside) becoming içten (sincerely).