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yetmez

Yetmez is a Turkish word meaning "is not enough" or "is insufficient." It derives from the verb yetmek, which expresses sufficiency or adequacy. In everyday Turkish, yetmez is used as the predicative form to indicate that a quantity, amount, time, or resource does not meet the required level.

Usage and examples:

- Bu para yetmez. (This money is not enough.)

- Bu kadar zaman yetmez mi? (Isn’t this much time enough?)

- Yeterli ekipman yok, bu nedenle bu proje yetmez. (There is not enough equipment, so this project

Related terms:

- yeterli: meaning "sufficient" or "adequate," used to describe something that meets a requirement.

- yeterince: an adverb meaning "enough" or "to a sufficient extent."

- yeterlilik: the noun form meaning "sufficiency" or "competence."

Grammatical notes:

- Yetmez functions as a predicate and does not require an auxiliary verb in simple clauses.

- It typically pairs with a subject noun phrase before it, as in Bu para yetmez.

- While yetmez expresses insufficiency, its positive counterpart is yete r (yeter), used in contexts where something

In usage, yetmez appears in both informal speech and written Turkish to convey that a given amount

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