Learn Turkish: Kotaya rağmen olabildiğince çok dosya indir. - Despite the quota, download as many files as possible.

Kotaya rağmen olabildiğince çok dosya indir.

Despite the quota, download as many files as possible.

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How does olabildiğince break down to mean "as much as possible"?

It forms the core of this lesson's structure: the verb ol (to be) + ability -abil + participle -diğ + possessive -i + buffer -n + adverbial -ce. Literally it means "to the extent that it can be," which we translate as "as much as possible."

Could we use kadar instead of the -ce ending here?

Yes, you could say olabildiği kadar instead of olabildiğince. Both are taught in this lesson to express maximal extent and are virtually interchangeable here, though olabildiğince is a very common fixed phrase for "as much as possible."

Why is there a -ya at the end of kotaya?

The postposition rağmen (despite) always dictates that the noun before it takes the dative case. Since kota (quota) ends in a vowel, we add the buffer -y- followed by the dative suffix -a.

Why isn't "files" pluralized as dosyalar?

In Turkish, whenever a noun is preceded by a quantity word like çok (a lot / many), az (few), or a specific number, the noun remains singular. So "many files" is just çok dosya.