Ben kütüphaneye doğru yürüyorum.

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Breakdown of Ben kütüphaneye doğru yürüyorum.

• yürümek: to walk
• kütüphane: the library
• -ye: to

Questions & Answers about Ben kütüphaneye doğru yürüyorum.

Why does kütüphane become kütüphaneye here?

Because you need the dative case to show motion toward something. The dative suffix in Turkish is -e (or -a), but when the noun ends in a vowel you insert a buffer y. Since kütüphane ends in -e, you add -ye, giving kütüphaneye (‘to the library’ or ‘towards the library’).

What role does doğru play? I thought doğru meant ‘correct’.

In isolation doğru can indeed mean ‘correct’ or ‘straight’. But when you put it after a noun in the dative case (noun + doğru), it means ‘towards’ or ‘in the direction of’. So kütüphaneye doğru literally means ‘towards the library’.

Can I drop doğru and just say kütüphaneye yürüyorum?

Yes, kütüphaneye yürüyorum (‘I am walking to the library’) is perfectly fine. The version with doğru emphasizes the direction itself rather than stating the library is your ultimate destination.

What are the parts of yürüyorum?

yürüyorum breaks down into three pieces:

• yürü- (verb stem, ‘walk’)
• -yor- (present continuous marker)
• -um (first-person singular ending)
  Put together, they mean ‘I am walking.’