This is the 5592nd most frequent Turkish word.
olmasaydı
"Olmasaydı" means "if it had not been" or "if it didn't exist."
The word 'olmasaydı' here expresses a conditional statement, indicating something that did not exist or occur in the past and its hypothetical consequence.
Eğer o zaman cesaretim olmasaydı, şimdi burada olamazdım.
If I hadn't had the courage back then, I wouldn't be here now.
Here, 'olmasaydı' is used to imagine a hypothetical scenario in which books do not exist, thus forming the basis for the conditional outcome.
Kitaplar olmasaydı, bilgiye ulaşmak çok zor olurdu.
If there were no books, accessing knowledge would be very difficult.
In this sentence, 'olmasaydı' denotes the absence of a positive state or condition (nice weather) and its impact on the hypothetical action.