Kara kedi bahçeden çıktı.

The black cat came out of the garden.

Breakdown of Kara kedi bahçeden çıktı.

• kedi: the cat
• bahçe: the garden
• çıkmak: to go out
• kara: black; dark

Questions & Answers about Kara kedi bahçeden çıktı.

What does each part of Kara kedi bahçeden çıktı do grammatically?

Here is the structure:

• kara = black
• kedi = cat
• bahçeden = from the garden / out of the garden
• çıktı = came out / went out

So:

• kara kedi is the subject: the black cat or a black cat
• bahçeden tells you where the movement starts
• çıktı is the verb, placed at the end as is normal in Turkish

Why is bahçe written as bahçeden?

Because Turkish usually adds endings to nouns instead of using separate words like from.

• bahçe = garden
• -den = from / out of

So:

• bahçeden = from the garden or out of the garden

This ending is called the ablative case.

Its form changes depending on vowel harmony and consonant harmony, so you may also see:

• -dan
• -den
• -tan
• -ten

After bahçe, the correct form is -den.

What tense is çıktı, and how is it formed?