Sinemayı seviyorum.

I like the cinema.

Breakdown of Sinemayı seviyorum.

• sinema: the cinema
• sevmek: to like

Questions & Answers about Sinemayı seviyorum.

Why is it sinemayı and not just sinema?

Because sinemayı has the accusative case ending, which marks it as a specific direct object.

• sinema = cinema / movie theater / cinema as a concept
• sinemayı = the cinema / the movies, as the thing being liked

In this sentence, sevmek is acting on a direct object, so Turkish often uses the accusative when that object is definite or specific.

Structure:

• sinema
• • -yı = accusative ending
• result: sinemayı

Why is there a y in sinemayı?

The y is a buffer consonant.

Turkish does not like two vowels coming together between the noun and certain suffixes. Since sinema ends in a vowel and the accusative ending also begins with a vowel, Turkish inserts y to make pronunciation smoother:

• sinema + ı would be awkward
• so it becomes sinema-y-ı

This y does not have meaning by itself. It is just there for pronunciation.

What does seviyorum break down into?

Seviyorum can be broken into parts like this: