Word
Spekülasyon yapan yatırımcılar, piyasanın öngörülemez olduğu gerçeğinden nefret ediyor.
Meaning
Investors who speculate hate the fact that the market is unpredictable.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Spekülasyon yapan yatırımcılar, piyasanın öngörülemez olduğu gerçeğinden nefret ediyor.
yapmak
to do / to make
olmak
to be
nefret etmek
to hate
gerçek
truth / reality
Questions & Answers about Spekülasyon yapan yatırımcılar, piyasanın öngörülemez olduğu gerçeğinden nefret ediyor.
How does the structure olduğu gerçeği translate to "the fact that it is"?
This is the core of the current lesson! To translate "the fact that [X happens/is]", Turkish uses a factive clause modifying an abstract noun. Here, piyasanın öngörülemez olduğu (that the market is unpredictable) acts as a modifier for the noun gerçek (fact). We link them using a compound noun structure: gerçek takes the 3rd person possessive suffix -i (becoming gerçeği due to k-to-ğ consonant mutation). Literally, it translates as "the market's unpredictable being fact-its".
Why is there an ablative suffix (-den) at the end of gerçeğinden?
The verb nefret etmek (to hate) always requires its object to take the ablative case (-dAn). Since the investors hate "the fact", the compound noun gerçeği receives this ending. The -n- in the middle is the standard buffer letter required whenever a case ending is attached to a 3rd person possessive suffix.
Can you break down the suffixes in the word öngörülemez (unpredictable)?
The root is the compound verb öngörmek (to foresee/predict). First, we add the passive suffix -ül to get öngörülmek (to be foreseen). Then, we add -emez, which is the negative aorist tense containing the inability marker (-e-). Put together, it literally means "cannot be foreseen," functioning perfectly here as the adjective "unpredictable."