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Bu oda yeterince büyük değil.

Bu oda yeterince büyük değil.
This room is not big enough.
From Lesson 381:Degree consequence (o kadar ... ki)·Turkish

Breakdown of Bu oda yeterince büyük değil.

bu
this
büyük
big
değil
not
oda
room
yeterince
enough, sufficiently

Questions & Answers about Bu oda yeterince büyük değil.

This lesson is about o kadar ... ki (so ... that). Could we use it here instead of yeterince?
No, because they serve different purposes. O kadar ... ki implies an extreme degree leading to a specific consequence (e.g., Bu oda o kadar büyük ki kayboldum - This room is so big that I got lost). Yeterince simply means 'sufficiently' or 'enough' without triggering a consequence clause.
Doesn't the -ince suffix usually mean 'when', like in gelince (when coming)?
Yes, when attached directly to a verb stem, -ince means 'when'. However, yeterince is a fixed, lexicalized adverb. It is formed from the aorist verb yeter (it is enough) plus -ince, creating the meaning 'sufficiently'.
In English, 'enough' comes after the adjective ('big enough'). Why does yeterince come before büyük?
In Turkish, adverbs of degree always precede the adjective they modify. Just as you say çok büyük (very big) or biraz büyük (a little big), you must say yeterince büyük (sufficiently big).
Can I use the word kadar to express this same idea?
Yes! A very common and interchangeable alternative to yeterince büyük is yeteri kadar büyük (literally 'as big as is sufficient').

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