Otelde seksen oda var.

to have

Breakdown of Otelde seksen oda var.

• oda: the room
• otel: the hotel
• seksen: eighty

Questions & Answers about Otelde seksen oda var.

What does otelde mean, and why isn’t it just otel?

Otelde means in the hotel or at the hotel.

It is made from:

• otel = hotel
• -de = a suffix meaning in / at / on

So:

• otel = hotel
• otelde = in the hotel

Turkish usually adds location meaning directly to the noun with a suffix, instead of using a separate word like in.

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Why is the ending -de and not -da?

This is because of vowel harmony.

The locative suffix has two main forms:

• -de
• -da

Which one you use depends on the vowels in the word.

Since otel has the vowel e in its last syllable, it takes -de:

• otel + de = otelde

Compare:

• evde = in the house
• okulda = in the school

So otelde is the correct vowel-harmonic form.

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What does seksen mean?