Learn Turkish: Duyduğum kadarıyla, hemşehrilerimiz bu karardan pek memnun değil. - As far as I heard, our fellow townsmen are not very pleased with this decision.

This matches our current lesson's structure. It takes the verb duy (hear) and adds the participle -duğ and the possessive -um (my), meaning "that which I heard." Then it adds kadar (extent) with its compound marker -ı, a buffer -y-, and the instrumental suffix -la (with/by). Literally, it translates to "by the extent of what I heard."

What is the breakdown of the word hemşehrilerimiz?

The root is hemşehri, which means "fellow townsman" or "someone from the same city." It combines the prefix hem- (meaning "same" or "co-") and şehir (city). With the plural -ler and possessive -imiz, it means "our fellow townsmen."

Why does karardan use the -dan (from) ending when the English translation says "pleased with this decision"?

In Turkish, the adjective memnun (pleased/satisfied) requires the object to take the ablative case (-dan / -den). You can think of the grammar as deriving your satisfaction "from" the decision, rather than being pleased "with" it.

Why use pek instead of çok for "very" here?