No. 2,534 in Turkish
olmasa
"Olmasa" means "if not" or "if it does not exist/happen".
In a sentence
Eğer yağmur olmasa dışarı çıkabilirdik.
If it weren't raining, we could go outside.
The word 'olmasa' in this sentence forms a conditional scenario about rain not occurring and the implications of that.
Onun yardımı olmasa bu işe başlayamazdım.
If it weren't for his help, I couldn't have started this job.
Here, 'olmasa' is used to express a hypothetical condition of the absence of help and its impact.
Eğer elektrik olmasa, karanlıkta otururduk.
If there were no electricity, we would be sitting in the dark.
In this case, 'olmasa' creates a conditional clause imagining a world without electricity.
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