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olduunca

Oluunca is a Turkish adverbial conjunction that introduces a temporal clause, roughly equivalent to “when,” “once,” or “after it happens” in English. It belongs to the family of suffixal time expressions in Turkish that attach to verbs to mark a relationship in time between two clauses. Oluunca specifically conveys that the action in the main clause occurs after the situation described in the subordinate clause has occurred or has reached a certain state.

Morphology and formation

The form oluunca is built from the verb olmak (to be / to become) with the appropriate temporal

Usage and nuance

Oluunca is employed in narrative and explanatory contexts to arrange events in time and to express a

Relation to other forms

Oluunca is related to the broader -unca/-ünce family, which expresses timing and conditional relations. It is

See also: Turkish grammar, temporal clauses, -unca/-ünce suffixes.

suffix.
It
is
one
of
several
-unca/-ünce/-ınca/-ince
forms
used
to
express
time
and
condition
in
Turkish.
The
use
of
oluunca
signals
a
sequence
in
which
the
main
clause
depends
on
or
follows
the
completion
of
the
state
described
in
the
dependent
clause.
temporal
dependence
between
clauses.
It
can
indicate
a
relatively
definite
point
at
which
a
subsequent
action
takes
place,
and
it
often
emphasizes
the
transition
from
one
state
to
another
as
a
trigger
for
what
follows.
used
alongside
more
common
forms
such
as
-ınca
and
-ince,
with
some
stylistic
or
regional
variation
in
preference.
In
formal
writing
and
literature,
oluunca
may
appear
where
a
precise
sequence
of
events
needs
to
be
highlighted.