Salı parkta çay içiyorum.

to drink

Breakdown of Salı parkta çay içiyorum.

• çay: the tea
• park: the park
• -ta: in

Questions & Answers about Salı parkta çay içiyorum.

Why is Salı capitalized?

In Turkish, days of the week are treated as proper nouns and always begin with a capital letter, just like in English.

What case is parkta, and what does it tell me?

Parkta is in the locative case, marked by the suffix -ta (one of the two locative endings, -ta or -te). It means “in the park” or “at the park.”

Why do we use -ta instead of -de or -te?

Turkish uses vowel harmony and consonant harmony. After the consonant k, the locative vowel is a, so you get -ta rather than -de or -te.

There’s no article before parkta. How do I know if it’s a specific park?

Turkish doesn’t have articles like the or a/an. Context usually tells you whether it’s a specific park. If you needed to be explicit, you could say o parkta (“at that park”) or bir parkta (“in a park”).

What does çay içiyorum literally mean?

Literally, it’s tea (çay) + I’m drinking (içiyorum). So word-for-word: “Tea I am drinking.”