Geçit dar.

to be

Breakdown of Geçit dar.

• dar: narrow
• geçit: the passage

Questions & Answers about Geçit dar.

What does geçit mean in English?

Geçit means “passage”, “pass”, or “corridor”.

What parts of speech are geçit and dar?

Geçit is a noun, and dar is an adjective describing the noun’s width.

Why isn’t there a word for “is” in Geçit dar?

Turkish uses a zero copula in the present tense, so you drop any equivalent of “is” when linking a noun to an adjective.

Why does the adjective dar follow the noun here, instead of coming before it?

When you make a predicate sentence (“X is Y”), the adjective follows the noun because of the zero copula. If you use the adjective attributively (just a noun phrase), it precedes: dar geçit (“narrow passage”).

What’s the difference between Geçit dar and dar geçit?

Geçit dar is a full sentence meaning “The passage is narrow.”
Dar geçit is an attributive phrase (noun phrase) meaning “narrow passage.”

What grammatical case is geçit in?

It’s in the nominative case (the default form), used for the subject of a sentence.

How do I say “passages are narrow” in Turkish?

Make the noun plural with -ler: Geçitler dar.

How would I express “The passage is very narrow”?

Place çok (“very”) before the adjective: Geçit çok dar.

How is the letter c in geçit pronounced?

It’s pronounced like the English j in jam (IPA: /dʒ/).