Kitap altmış sayfa.

The book is sixty pages long.

Breakdown of Kitap altmış sayfa.

• kitap: the book
• sayfa: the page
• altmış: sixty

Questions & Answers about Kitap altmış sayfa.

Why is there no separate word for is in Kitap altmış sayfa?

In Turkish, present-tense to be is often not said explicitly in simple sentences like this.

So:

• Kitap altmış sayfa. = The book is sixty pages.

This is very normal Turkish. The idea of is is understood automatically.

If you want, you can also use a more formal or emphatic form:

• Kitap altmış sayfadır.

That -dır adds the sense of is more overtly, but in everyday speech it is often omitted.

Why is it sayfa and not sayfalar after altmış?

Because in Turkish, nouns after numbers are usually singular, not plural.

So Turkish says:

• bir sayfa = one page
• iki sayfa = two pages
• altmış sayfa = sixty pages

A native English speaker often expects a plural noun after numbers greater than one, but Turkish does not usually do that.

So altmış sayfalar would sound wrong here.

Does kitap mean the book or a book here?