Breakdown of Meğerse şirketin iflas edeceği çok önceden malumdu.
çok
very
şirket
company
önce
before / first / firstly
iflas etmek
to go bankrupt
meğerse
apparently / it turns out
malum
known / evident
Questions & Answers about Meğerse şirketin iflas edeceği çok önceden malumdu.
Why doesn't edeceği have a case marker at the end?
Because the entire clause şirketin iflas edeceği ("that the company would go bankrupt") acts as the subject of the main word malumdu ("was known"). When a factive clause functions as a sentence subject, it takes the possessive suffix (here, the 3rd person singular -i on the future suffix -ecek, softening the k to ğ) but remains in the nominative (zero) case.
Why is the company written in the genitive case (şirketin) instead of just şirket?
In Turkish factive clauses built with -dık or -(y)acak, the subject of that specific embedded clause takes the genitive case. You can think of the literal grammatical structure as "the company's future-going-bankrupt was known".
What nuance does meğerse add to this sentence?
Meğerse (which can also be used as just meğer) means "it turns out that" or "apparently." It is a discourse marker used when a speaker discovers a truth that contradicts what they previously thought or didn't know. It emphasizes the speaker's surprise that the bankruptcy was actually expected all along.
Why does önceden take the ablative (-den) case here?
With time words, the ablative suffix often denotes the continuous starting point of a state, translating to "from" or "since." Çok önceden literally translates to "from much earlier," which gives us the natural English phrasing "long in advance."
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