Can salı pruvanın yakınında.

No. Can here is a Turkish male name, not the English modal verb.

It is usually pronounced roughly like Jan in English, with a j sound: /dʒan/.

So in this sentence, Can is the person being talked about.

Turkish often omits the present-tense form of to be in simple sentences.

So:

• Can salı pruvanın yakınında.
  means
• Can is near the bow on Tuesday.

This is very normal in Turkish. In the present tense, a sentence like this can be complete without an explicit verb.

You may sometimes see -dır / -dir / -dur / -dür added for a more formal, emphatic, or explanatory tone, but it is not required here.

salı means Tuesday.

In Turkish, expressions of time often appear without a case ending when they function like adverbs:

• salı = on Tuesday
• yarın = tomorrow
• bugün = today

So salı by itself can naturally mean on Tuesday.

You could also say salı günü, which is a slightly fuller way to say on Tuesday.

Because Turkish commonly says near X with a structure that is literally more like in the vicinity of X.

So:

• pruva = bow
• pruvanın = of the bow

The ending -ın here is the genitive suffix, meaning something like of.

This is needed because yakınında works with a possessed relationship:

• pruvanın yakınında = near the bow
• literally: at the bow’s nearness / in the vicinity of the bow

yakınında can be broken down like this:

• yakın = near / closeness
• -ı = third-person possessive suffix
• -nda = locative ending, meaning in / at / on

So:

• yakınında = at its vicinity / near it

Together:

• pruvanın yakınında = near the bow

This is a very common Turkish pattern with location expressions.

Not completely. Turkish word order is fairly flexible, and changing it often changes the focus or emphasis, not the core meaning.

Can salı pruvanın yakınında. is understandable as:

• Can is near the bow on Tuesday.

But Turkish could also move parts around, for example to emphasize the time or location.

In many neutral sentences, Turkish often places:

• the topic / subject early,
• time expressions early,
• and the main information later.

So this order is normal, but not the only possible one.

Yes. That is another natural way to say near the bow.

Compare:

• pruvanın yakınında = near the bow
• pruvaya yakın = close to the bow

The second version uses:

• pruva
• plus the dative ending -ya
• plus yakın

So:

• pruvaya = to the bow
• pruvaya yakın = close to the bow

Both patterns are used in Turkish.

Yes. In standard Turkish, days of the week are usually written in lowercase unless they begin a sentence.

So:

• pazartesi
• salı
• çarşamba

This is different from English, where Tuesday is always capitalized.

It is understandable, but it does sound a bit like a teaching/example sentence, especially because of the specific vocabulary like pruva.

A native speaker might also say:

• Can salı günü pruvanın yakınında.
• Can salı pruvaya yakın.

These may sound a little more natural depending on context.

Still, the original sentence is grammatically useful because it shows:

• a name,
• a time expression,
• and a location phrase without an explicit is.