Ahır büyük ama temiz.

to be

Breakdown of Ahır büyük ama temiz.

• ama: but
• temiz: clean
• büyük: large

Questions & Answers about Ahır büyük ama temiz.

What does ahır mean?

Ahır means barn, the structure on a farm where animals like cows or horses are kept.

Why is there no the or a before ahır?

Turkish has no articles. Nouns appear without the or a, and context tells you whether something is definite or indefinite.

Why is there no verb like “is” in Ahır büyük ama temiz?

In Turkish, the present‐tense copula is usually omitted when you have a noun or adjective predicate. So Ahır büyük literally reads as “barn big,” but means “The barn is big.”

Can you add a verb to make it more formal or explicit?

Yes. You can attach the copular suffix -dir to both predicate words:
Ahır büyüktür ama temizdir.
This is more formal or emphatic, roughly “The barn is big but it is clean.”

Why do the adjectives büyük and temiz come after the noun here?

When adjectives act as predicates (they follow an implicit “to be”), they come after the subject. Attributive adjectives (modifying a noun directly) precede it:
• büyük ahır = “big barn” (adjective + noun)
• ahır büyük = “the barn is big” (noun + predicate adjective)