Word
Beni neden karalıyorsun ki, bu büyük bir haksızlık!
Meaning
Why are you smearing me anyway, this is a huge injustice!
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Questions & Answers about Beni neden karalıyorsun ki, bu büyük bir haksızlık!
What exactly does ki add to the end of the first clause here?
In this sentence, the trailing ki emphasizes exasperation and disbelief. While Beni neden karalıyorsun? simply asks "Why are you smearing me?", adding ki turns it into something more like "Why on earth are you smearing me?" or "Why are you smearing me anyway?". It highlights that the speaker finds the action completely unjustified.
How is the verb karalıyorsun formed? I know kara means black.
It comes from the adjective kara (black). Adding the suffix -la makes it the verb karalamak, which literally means "to blacken" but is heavily used figuratively to mean "to smear", "to defame", or "to slander". When the present continuous suffix -ıyor is added, the final a in karala- narrows to ı due to vowel reduction, giving us karalıyor (and then -sun for "you").
Why is the word order büyük bir haksızlık instead of bir büyük haksızlık?
As a quick refresher, when an adjective modifies a noun that also uses the indefinite article bir, the adjective almost always comes before bir in Turkish. The standard structure is [Adjective] + bir + [Noun], giving us büyük bir haksızlık (a huge injustice) rather than the exact English word order.
Can you break down the suffixes in the word ?