Breakdown of Görünen o ki, bu robotumsu hareketleri tamamen o kurgulamış olacak.
bu
this
o
that / he / she / it
olmak
to be
robot
robot
Questions & Answers about Görünen o ki, bu robotumsu hareketleri tamamen o kurgulamış olacak.
How exactly does the phrase Görünen o ki translate to "It seems that"?
This is the evidential structure you are learning in this lesson. Literally, görünen is a substantivized present participle meaning "the thing that is seen" or "that which appears." Combined with o ki ("is that"), the literal translation is "The thing that appears is that..." It acts as a set phrase meaning "It seems that..." or "Apparently..." You will also see this pattern with other verbs, like Anlaşılan o ki ("It is understood that...").
What does the -umsu suffix do in robotumsu?
The suffix -(I)msI or -(U)msU (following 4-way vowel harmony) is added to nouns or adjectives to mean "-like" or "-ish." Here, it turns robot into robotumsu, meaning "robot-like" or "robotic." You might already know this suffix from describing colors like yeşilimsi ("greenish") or tastes like ekşimsi ("sourish").
Why is the subject pronoun o placed right before the verb instead of earlier in the sentence?
In Turkish, the most emphasized piece of information is always placed immediately before the verb. By putting o ("he") right before kurgulamış olacak, the speaker strongly emphasizes that he is the one who fabricated these movements, not someone else. If the pronoun were placed at the beginning of the clause, it would just be a neutral, unemphasized subject.
Does kurgulamış olacak ("will have fabricated") refer to an actual future event here?