Çalışma alanı temiz.

to be

Breakdown of Çalışma alanı temiz.

• temiz: clean
• çalışma: the work
• alan: the area

Questions & Answers about Çalışma alanı temiz.

Why isn’t there a verb meaning “to be” (like is) in the sentence Çalışma alanı temiz?

In Turkish, the copula “to be” is usually omitted in the simple present. You form a descriptive sentence as: • Subject + predicate-adjective/adverb
So Çalışma alanı temiz literally reads Workspace clean, which conveys “The workspace is clean.”

What does the -ı suffix in alanı do?

The -ı on alan is the 3rd-person singular possessive suffix. In many Turkish noun-noun compounds (like çalışma alanı “work area”), the second noun takes a possessive ending even though there’s no explicit possessor pronoun in English.

What part of speech is Çalışma in this phrase?

Çalışma is a noun formed from the verb çalışmak (“to work/to study”) plus the noun-forming suffix -ma. Here it means “work” or “study”, and it modifies alanı to give “work area” or “workspace.”

Why does the adjective temiz come after the noun phrase rather than before it?