Questions & Answers about Cidden çok yoruldum.
How would I rewrite this sentence to use the exclamatory structures taught in this lesson?
You could drop cidden çok and instead say Nasıl da yoruldum! (Oh, how tired I got!) or Ne kadar da yoruldum!. This gives the exact same intense feeling of exhaustion, but frames it as an exclamation rather than a standard statement.
The English translation says "I am tired" (present state), but yoruldum uses the past tense suffix -du. Why is that?
In Turkish, getting tired is treated as an event that has already happened, which results in your current physical state. Because the action of becoming tired is complete, you use the past tense yoruldum (literally: I got tired). This is the exact same logic used for acıktım (I am hungry / I got hungry).
How is the adverb cidden formed?
Can I use gerçekten instead of cidden in this sentence?
Yes, in this context they are completely interchangeable. Both act as strong intensifiers. Cidden translates best to "seriously," while gerçekten means "really" or "truly," but they serve the exact same conversational purpose here.
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