Saklama kabı mutfakta.

to be

Breakdown of Saklama kabı mutfakta.

• mutfak: the kitchen
• -ta: in
• saklama: the storage

Questions & Answers about Saklama kabı mutfakta.

Why doesn’t the sentence have the verb is?

In Turkish, the present-tense copula (the equivalent of “is”) is usually omitted in nominal or adjectival sentences. You simply put the subject and the predicate side by side:
Saklama kabı mutfakta.
If you want to be extra formal or explicit, you can add the copula suffix -dır:
Saklama kabı mutfaktadır.
But in everyday speech, you drop it.

Why is there no article like “the” or “a” before saklama kabı?

Turkish does not have articles equivalent to English “the” or “a.” Nouns stand alone without an article. Definite direct objects get the accusative suffix (e.g. kabı in saklama kabını “the storage container [object]”), but as a subject in a nominal sentence, saklama kabı remains unmarked (nominative). To say “a storage container,” you would add bir:
Bir saklama kabı mutfakta.

What does mutfakta mean, and why is it one word?

mutfakta breaks down as mutfak (kitchen) + the locative case suffix -ta (in/at). Turkish expresses prepositions by adding case endings directly to the noun, so in the kitchen becomes a single word, mutfakta.

Why is the locative suffix -da written as -ta here?