Buğday tarlası çok geniş.

to be

Breakdown of Buğday tarlası çok geniş.

• çok: very
• geniş: wide
• buğday tarlası: the wheat field

Questions & Answers about Buğday tarlası çok geniş.

Why aren't there articles like the or a in this sentence?

Turkish does not use articles. Definiteness and indefiniteness are usually understood from context or by adding words like bir (a/an) for indefiniteness. Here, Buğday tarlası çok geniş simply means “The wheat field is very wide” or “A wheat field is very wide,” depending on context.

What is the literal translation of Buğday tarlası?

Literally, Buğday tarlası means wheat field (or more precisely “field of wheat”). Buğday = wheat, tarla = field, and the suffix on tarlası marks the relationship.

Why is it tarlası instead of just tarla when we say buğday tarla?

In Turkish noun compounds, the first noun (modifier) remains unchanged and the second noun (head) takes a possessive suffix. So tarla becomes tarlası (“its field”), giving buğday tarlası = “field of wheat.”

What does the suffix -sı mean in tarlası?

The suffix -sı is the third-person singular possessive suffix. It literally means “its” or “of it.” So tarlası = “its field” or “field of (something),” and with buğday it becomes “field of wheat.”

Why isn't there a verb like is in the sentence?