Breakdown of Uykunun bu evresinde deliksiz uyuyabildi.
bu
this
uyumak
to sleep
uyku
sleep
evre
phase / stage (in a process)
deliksiz
uninterrupted / sound (sleep)
Questions & Answers about Uykunun bu evresinde deliksiz uyuyabildi.
What does deliksiz literally mean, and how does it translate to "soundly"?
Deliksiz literally means "without holes" or "seamless." When used to describe sleep (uyku), it is a very common idiom meaning "uninterrupted," "deep," or "sound" sleep.
Since our current lesson is about the o kadar ... ki construction, how could we rewrite this sentence to use it?
You could emphasize the depth of the sleep by placing o kadar before the adverb: Uykunun bu evresinde o kadar deliksiz uyuyabildi ki... (In this phase of sleep, he was able to sleep so soundly that...). You would then follow the ki with a result clause, such as çalar saati bile duymadı (he didn't even hear the alarm clock).
Let's review the suffixes on evresinde. Why is there an -n- before the -de?
This word is part of the possessive compound uykunun evresi (the phase of sleep). The word evre (phase) takes the third-person possessive suffix -si. Whenever you add a spatial case ending like the locative -de (in/at/on) to a third-person possessive suffix, Turkish requires the buffer letter -n-, making it evresinde.
How would we change uyuyabildi (he was able to sleep) into the negative "he couldn't sleep"?
To form the negative of ability, Turkish drops the -bil- but keeps the ability vowel (-a- or -e-) right before the negative suffix. Therefore, "he couldn't sleep" becomes uyuyamadı (uyu- + -y- + -a- + -ma- + -dı). B2 learners sometimes accidentally say uyuyabilmedi, but remember that -bil- disappears in the negative form.
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