Breakdown of Başarı oranının yıldan yıla gerileyeceğini sanmıyoruz.
yıl
year
sanmak
to suppose, to assume
oran
rate
başarı
success
gerilemek
to regress / to decline
Questions & Answers about Başarı oranının yıldan yıla gerileyeceğini sanmıyoruz.
How does the phrase 'yıldan yıla' work, and what meaning does it add to the sentence?
Why is 'başarı oranı' (success rate) in the genitive case here as 'oranının'?
It acts as the subject of the embedded clause "that the success rate will regress." In Turkish, when an entire clause becomes the object of a main verb like sanmıyoruz, the subject of that embedded clause takes the genitive case (oranının), and its verb turns into a participle with a matching possessive suffix (gerileyeceğ-i).
Can you break down all the suffixes on the word 'gerileyeceğini'?
Certainly! The root is gerile- (to regress/decline). Next is the future participle -(y)ecek (which softens to -yeceğ- because a vowel follows). Then we add the 3rd-person possessive -i (which pairs with the genitive oranının). Finally, we have the buffer -n- and the accusative case -i, because this entire embedded clause is the direct object of the verb sanmıyoruz.
Could we use 'düşünmüyoruz' instead of 'sanmıyoruz' at the end of the sentence?
Yes, but sanmıyoruz (we don't suppose / we guess not) sounds very natural here because it's expressing a belief or expectation about a future event. Düşünmüyoruz (we don't think) is also grammatically correct, but it can sometimes carry the slightly heavier nuance of "we are not actively contemplating it."
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