Breakdown of Belirgin bir kabus gördüğüne göre, gece tedirgin oluyor muydu?
bir
a / an
görmek
to see
gece
night
göre
according to / compared to
Questions & Answers about Belirgin bir kabus gördüğüne göre, gece tedirgin oluyor muydu?
How does gördüğüne göre translate to "since he had"?
This uses the structure verb + -dığına göre (or -diğine göre, etc.). It literally translates to "according to the fact that..." and is the standard way to express "since" or "seeing as" when a premise leads to a consequence. It is formed with the participle -dık + possessive -ü ("his") + buffer -n- + dative -e + the postposition göre.
Is it standard to say kabus görmek (to see a nightmare) instead of "having" one?
Yes! In Turkish, you don't "have" or "experience" dreams and nightmares; you "see" them. The fixed collocations are always rüya görmek (to have a dream) and kabus görmek (to have a nightmare).
Why use the past continuous oluyor muydu instead of the simple past oldu mu?
The past continuous (-iyor + question particle mu + past -y-du) emphasizes an ongoing, developing state during the night ("was he getting uneasy?" or "was he feeling uneasy?"). If we used the simple past oldu mu?, it would sound like a single, instantaneous event ("did he suddenly become uneasy?").
Why doesn't gece (at night) have a locative suffix like gecede?