Word
Üzümleri toplayacaktı ama yağmur yağacak diye korktu.
Meaning
He was going to pick the grapes, but he got scared that it would rain.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Üzümleri toplayacaktı ama yağmur yağacak diye korktu.
korkmak
to fear
yağmur
rain
yağmak
to rain / to snow
ama
but
Questions & Answers about Üzümleri toplayacaktı ama yağmur yağacak diye korktu.
Why is the future tense yağacak used with diye before a past tense verb like korktu?
The word diye acts like a quote marker. It captures the exact thought he had in his head at that moment: 'It will rain!' (Yağmur yağacak!). Because of this, we use the future tense -AcAk inside the diye clause to show the anticipated event, even though the main sentence happened in the past (korktu).
Wait, doesn't diye usually mean 'because'?
It often does! However, when paired with verbs of anticipatory concern like korkmak (to fear) or endişelenmek (to worry), it introduces the specific event the person is afraid of. In English, we usually translate this combination as 'fearing that...' or 'getting scared that...' rather than 'because'.
What does the ending -acaktı do in the word toplayacaktı?
This is the 'future in the past' tense. It combines the future marker -acak with the past tense suffix -tı to mean 'was going to'. It perfectly expresses a past plan or intention that was interrupted, changed, or abandoned.
Why is it üzümleri instead of just üzüm?