Yazın göl kenarında kamp yaptık.

summer

Breakdown of Yazın göl kenarında kamp yaptık.

• kenar: the edge
• göl: the lake
• kamp yapmak: to camp

Questions & Answers about Yazın göl kenarında kamp yaptık.

What does yazın mean here?

Here, yazın means in the summer or during summer.

It comes from yaz = summer, but in this kind of expression Turkish uses a special adverb-like form for seasons:

• yazın = in summer
• kışın = in winter

So in this sentence, yazın tells us when the action happened.

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Why is it yazın, not yazda?

For seasons, Turkish usually does not use the regular locative ending -da/-de the way English uses in.

So instead of yazda, Turkish normally says:

• yazın = in summer
• yaz mevsiminde = in the summer season
• yaz aylarında = in the summer months

So yazda would sound unnatural in standard Turkish for this meaning.

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