Questions & Answers about İndirimdeki reyonda alan alana.
How does alan alana translate to "people are buying left and right"?
This uses the chaotic abundance pattern from this lesson! It repeats the subject relative participle -an. First, alan means "the one who buys". The second word adds the dative suffix -a to make alana ("to the one who buys"). Together, the idiom alan alana literally means "buyer to buyer", expressing that everyone is buying in a frenzy.
Is this sentence missing a verb?
Yes, it is a nominal (verbless) sentence. In spoken and informal Turkish, this specific chaotic abundance pattern is often used entirely on its own. You do not need to add a verb like oluyor or a "to be" suffix like -dır at the end.
Why do we see the locative suffix twice here, in indirimdeki and reyonda?
Can I build this chaotic pattern with any verb?
You can build it with many verbs, but it only sounds natural for actions where a crowded, chaotic frenzy makes sense. Other very common examples are kaçan kaçana (people fleeing in all directions) and ağlayan ağlayana (people crying everywhere).
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