Asma kilit anahtar deliğinin yanında.

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Breakdown of Asma kilit anahtar deliğinin yanında.

• asma kilit: a padlock
• anahtar deliği: a keyhole

Questions & Answers about Asma kilit anahtar deliğinin yanında.

Is there a missing verb here? Where is is?

Yes, from an English point of view it feels missing, but in Turkish this is normal. In simple present-tense noun/adjective/location sentences, the verb to be is usually not said.

So:

• Asma kilit anahtar deliğinin yanında. = The padlock is next to the keyhole.

A more formal or emphatic version could be:

• Asma kilit anahtar deliğinin yanındadır.

But in everyday Turkish, leaving out that ending is completely natural.

What does asma kilit mean literally, and why is it written as two words?

Asma kilit is the normal Turkish word for padlock.

Literally, asma comes from asmak, meaning to hang, so the expression originally suggests something like hanging lock. Turkish writes many compound expressions as two separate words, so even though English uses one word padlock, Turkish uses asma kilit.

So this is just the standard dictionary form you should learn as a set phrase.

How does anahtar deliği work? Why isn’t it just anahtar delik?