Bilet altmış lira.

the ticket

Breakdown of Bilet altmış lira.

• lira: the lira (Turkish currency unit)
• altmış: sixty

Questions & Answers about Bilet altmış lira.

Why is there no word for is in Bilet altmış lira?

Because Turkish often leaves out a separate present-tense to be in 3rd-person noun/adjective sentences.

So:

• Bilet altmış lira = The ticket is sixty lira

This is completely normal Turkish.
In other words, Turkish does not need an explicit word like is here.

You do see a visible to be-type ending in other persons, for example:

• Ben öğrenciyim = I am a student
• Sen yorgunsun = You are tired

But in 3rd person, it is often just omitted.

Why is bilet in the plain dictionary form, with no ending?

Because bilet is just the noun being talked about, so it stays in its basic form.

In this sentence, bilet functions like the subject/topic, and Turkish normally uses the bare form for that.

So:

• bilet = base form
• no extra ending is needed

Turkish adds endings only when grammar calls for them, such as possession, object marking, location, and so on.

Does bilet mean the ticket or a ticket?