Breakdown of Görünürlüğün bu kadar düşeceğini kimse tahmin etmedi.
bu
this
düşmek
to fall
kadar
as ... as; until, up to
kimse
no one / anyone
tahmin etmek
to guess, to predict
görünürlük
visibility
Questions & Answers about Görünürlüğün bu kadar düşeceğini kimse tahmin etmedi.
Why does the word görünürlük (visibility) take the genitive suffix -ün here?
In Turkish, when a whole sentence is turned into a noun to be the object of another verb (an embedded clause), its subject takes the genitive case. Here, görünürlük becomes görünürlüğün to act as the logical subject of the embedded action düşeceğini (literally: the visibility's future dropping).
How do the suffixes on düşeceğini work together?
The root is düş- (to drop). First, we add the future participle -ecek, which mutates to -eceğ- because of the following vowel. Next is the 3rd person possessive -i (linking it back to the genitive görünürlüğün). Finally, after the buffer consonant -n-, we add the accusative case -i because this entire embedded clause acts as the specific direct object of tahmin etmedi (didn't guess what? -> that the visibility would drop).
The main verb tahmin etmedi is in the past tense. Why do we use the future suffix -ecek in düşeceğini?
Embedded clauses in Turkish usually measure time relative to the main verb, not to the present moment. At the time people were making their guesses in the past, the drop in visibility was still a future event. English handles this "future in the past" with "would", while Turkish uses the standard future participle -ecek.
If kimse means "nobody," why does the verb etmedi also have a negative suffix?
Turkish requires negative agreement. Pronouns like kimse (anyone/no one) or hiç (ever/never) don't make a sentence negative on their own. To mean "no one," kimse must always be paired with a grammatically negative verb like etmedi.
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