Breakdown of Anladığım kadarıyla, hemşehrilerimiz bu plana karşı.
bu
this
anlamak
to understand
plan
plan
kadar
as ... as; until, up to
karşı
against, towards
hemşehri
fellow townsman
Questions & Answers about Anladığım kadarıyla, hemşehrilerimiz bu plana karşı.
How is anladığım kadarıyla formed to mean "as far as I understand"?
This is the core of our current lesson! It combines the verb anlamak (to understand) with the participle suffix -dık and the possessive -ım to make anladığım (the thing I understand). Then we add kadarıyla, which is kadar (amount/extent) + the compound suffix -(s)ıyla (with its). Literally, it translates to "with the extent of my understanding."
Where does the word hemşehrilerimiz come from?
The root word is hemşehri, which means "fellow townsman" or someone from the same hometown. It is made of the Persian prefix hem- (meaning "same," similar to "co-") and the Arabic-derived word şehir (city). When combined with the plural -ler and the possessive -imiz (our), it becomes "our fellow townsmen."
Why does plan have an -a at the end in bu plana karşı?
The word karşı functions as a postposition meaning "against" in this context. In Turkish, karşı always requires the noun it refers to be in the dative case (the "to/towards" direction). That is why the root noun plan takes the dative suffix -a to become plana.
Why isn't there a verb at the end of this sentence?
In Turkish, present-tense sentences that use the "to be" copula often omit the verb entirely. The word karşı is acting as the predicate here. While you could technically write karşılar or karşıdırlar to emphasize "they are against," it is completely natural and very common in everyday Turkish to just end on the adjective or postposition.
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