Questions & Answers about Dün arkadaşlarla çok eğlendik.
What does dün mean, and why is it at the beginning?
Dün means yesterday.
In Turkish, time words often come near the beginning of the sentence, so Dün arkadaşlarla çok eğlendik is a very natural order:
Yesterday, we had a lot of fun with friends.
That said, Turkish word order is flexible. You could move dün for emphasis, but sentence-initial position is the most neutral here.
Why is arkadaşlarla one word? Where is the word for with?
In Turkish, with is often expressed by the suffix -la / -le attached directly to a noun.
So:
- arkadaş = friend
- arkadaşlar = friends
- arkadaşlarla = with friends
This is basically:
- arkadaşlar
- -la → arkadaşlarla
There is also a separate form ile, which also means with. So arkadaşlarla and arkadaşlar ile mean the same thing, but the attached suffix form is very common in everyday Turkish.
Why is it -larla and not -lerle?