Kalkış saati yaklaşıyor.

to approach

Breakdown of Kalkış saati yaklaşıyor.

• kalkış saati: the departure time

Questions & Answers about Kalkış saati yaklaşıyor.

What part of speech is kalkış, and how is it formed?

• kalkış is a noun meaning “departure.”
• It comes from the verb kalkmak (to get up; to depart) plus the nominalizing suffix -ış, which turns a verb into the noun denoting the action or event.

Why is there an -i on saat? Isn’t -i the accusative ending?

• Here -i is the 3rd-person singular possessive suffix, not an accusative marker. It shows “the time of departure.”
• In context you know saati is the head of a compound (noun 1 + possessive noun 2), so it’s a possessive form, not a direct-object case.

Shouldn’t it be kalkışın saati instead of kalkış saati?

• In strict Genitive-Possessive constructions you’d say kalkışın saati (“the departure’s time”).
• However, Turkish often forms noun-noun compounds by dropping the genitive ending on the first noun, especially in fixed expressions. In announcements and timetables you typically see kalkış saati.

What tense and aspect does yaklaşıyor represent?

• yaklaşıyor is the present-continuous form of yaklaşmak (to approach).
• It literally means “(it) is approaching” and conveys that the departure time is getting close right now.