Hemşire hastayı bekliyor.

The nurse is waiting for the patient.

Breakdown of Hemşire hastayı bekliyor.

• beklemek: to wait
• hasta: the patient
• hemşire: the nurse

Questions & Answers about Hemşire hastayı bekliyor.

What is the basic word order in the sentence Hemşire hastayı bekliyor?

Turkish typically follows a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order. In this sentence:

• Hemşire = Subject
• hastayı = Object (in the accusative case)
• bekliyor = Verb (is waiting)

So it literally reads “Nurse patient-ACC waiting.”

Why is hasta marked as hastayı instead of just hasta?

Hastayı carries the accusative case marker -yı, which shows that this is a definite direct object. In Turkish, definite objects take an accusative suffix. Because hasta ends in a vowel, we insert the buffer consonant y before -ı (yielding -yı) to avoid two vowels clashing.

Why is there no word for “for” (as in “waiting for”) in the Turkish sentence?

Turkish often expresses what English does with prepositions by using case endings. Here, the accusative -yı on hastayı covers both “the patient” and “waiting for the patient” by marking it as the definite object. No separate preposition is needed.

How is the present continuous tense formed in bekliyor?