Ofis kaçıncı katta?

the office

Breakdown of Ofis kaçıncı katta?

• kat: the floor
• kaçıncı: which one (in a sequence)?

Questions & Answers about Ofis kaçıncı katta?

What does kaçıncı mean here, and how is it different from kaç?

Kaç means how many / how much.

Kaçıncı means which number / what ordinal number, so in this sentence it means which floor number or what floor.

Compare:

• Kaç kat var? = How many floors are there?
• Ofis kaçıncı katta? = What floor is the office on?

So kaçıncı is used when you want an answer like first, second, third, fourth, not just a quantity.

Why is it katta and not just kat?

Because Turkish uses the locative case to express in / on / at.

• kat = floor
• katta = on the floor / on a floor

So Ofis kaçıncı katta? literally means something like:

The office is on which floor?

Without the locative ending, the sentence would sound incomplete or unnatural here.

Why is the ending -ta and not -da?