Breakdown of Tatile çıkacağı zaman oteli ayırtmak lazımmış; keşke o kadar beklemeseymiş.
o
that / he / she / it
otel
hotel
zaman
time
beklemek
to wait
çıkmak
to go out / to leave / to exit / to break out / to arise (of a storm)
tatil
holiday / vacation
kadar
as ... as; until, up to
lazım
necessary
ayırtmak
to reserve / to book
keşke
if only / I wish
Questions & Answers about Tatile çıkacağı zaman oteli ayırtmak lazımmış; keşke o kadar beklemeseymiş.
How does beklemeseymiş break down, and why is the -miş suffix added to the conditional -se?
It breaks down as bekle-me-se-y-miş (wait - negative - conditional - buffer - reported). Using -se with keşke expresses a wish ("if only he hadn't waited"). Adding -miş makes it a reported or inferred wish. You are saying "I heard that he wishes he hadn't waited" or "apparently, he shouldn't have waited."
Why use lazımmış instead of lazımdı?
lazımdı (with the definite past -dı) means "it was necessary" as a direct, known fact. Using lazımmış (with the inferential -mış) implies you learned this after the fact, or someone told you: "apparently, it was necessary" or "it turns out it was necessary."
In çıkacağı zaman, why is the future participle -acak used when the sentence is talking about a past event?
The participle is relative to the timeline of the action, not the present moment. At the time they needed to book the hotel, the holiday was still in the future. So, çıkacağı zaman means "when he was going to go on holiday."
Why is the verb ayırtmak used here for "to book"?
While you can use phrases like rezervasyon yapmak, ayırtmak is a very natural Turkish way to say "to book" or "to reserve." It is the causative form of ayırmak (to separate or set aside), so it literally means "to cause to be set aside."
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