Breakdown of Yadigârları gelişigüzel satacak kadar bencil misin?
satmak
to sell
mi
question particle (mı/mi/mu/mü)
kadar
as ... as; until, up to
bencil
selfish
Questions & Answers about Yadigârları gelişigüzel satacak kadar bencil misin?
How would I apply the 'm-' reduplication from this lesson to say "heirlooms and things like that" in this sentence?
You would duplicate the base noun yadigâr, replacing its first letter with 'm' to make madigâr. When a word has plural or case suffixes, you typically attach them to both halves of the reduplication. So, "the heirlooms and stuff" becomes yadigârları madigârları.
The word gelişigüzel translates to "haphazardly." How is this compound word formed?
Why do we use the future participle satacak before kadar instead of the infinitive satmak?
To express "[adjective] enough to do [verb]" in Turkish, you use the future participle (-AcAk) + kadar + [adjective]. We use the future form satacak because the action of selling is a potential or hypothetical future event. The literal structure is "selfish to the degree that you will sell."
Why does Yadigârları have a circumflex (the little hat) over the 'a'?
The circumflex in yadigâr tells you to soften the preceding 'g' sound (making it sound a bit like the 'g' in the English word "argue" rather than "garden") and to slightly lengthen the 'a' vowel. You will mostly encounter this mark in loanwords from Persian or Arabic.