Breakdown of Diyelim ki tatilde pasaportunu çaldırdın, temkinli olmak zorundasın.
olmak
to be
tatil
holiday / vacation
pasaport
passport
ki
that (conjunction) / so... that
Questions & Answers about Diyelim ki tatilde pasaportunu çaldırdın, temkinli olmak zorundasın.
Why does this sentence use diyelim ki instead of the lesson's main topic, olur da?
While both introduce hypotheticals, they have different flavors. Olur da means "on the off chance that" and typically takes the conditional suffix (like olur da çaldırırsan). Diyelim ki literally means "let's say that" or "suppose that" and often takes a past tense verb like çaldırdın to set up a fixed hypothetical scenario to discuss.
Doesn't the -dır in çaldırdın make it causative? Why would someone "cause" their passport to be stolen?
Yes, -dır is the causative suffix, but Turkish often uses the causative to express adverse experiences that happen to you. It is the exact equivalent of the English structure "to have your passport stolen." It doesn't mean you told someone to steal it; it just means you suffered the event.
How does diyelim ki break down grammatically?
It comes from the root verb demek (to say). The -y- is a buffer, the -e is the optative mood (expressing a suggestion), and -lim is the "we" ending. So diyelim literally translates to "let us say." The conjunction ki means "that," so the whole phrase means "Let's say that..."
Let's review the suffixes on pasaportunu. Why are there two u vowels at the end?