Questions & Answers about Ben öğle saatinde evde uyuyorum.
Turkish is a “pro-drop” language, which means subject pronouns (like ben, “I”) can be dropped because the verb ending already tells you who the subject is. Here, -uyorum marks first-person singular, so you can equally say:
• Öğle saatinde evde uyuyorum.
You only keep ben if you want extra emphasis or contrast (e.g. “I, for one, sleep at home at noon,” as opposed to someone else).
- öğle saati literally means noon hour.
- The suffix -nde is the locative case marking “at” or “in.” Applied to time nouns, it gives “at the noon hour.”
- Vowel harmony dictates saat (with an ‘a’ vowel) takes -da, but because saat already has a possessive-like ending -i (“saati”), the final locative appears as -nde.
Both are locative cases (meaning “at/in”), but one marks time and the other marks place:
• saatinde = “at the (noon) hour” (time)
• evde = “at home” (place)
Turkish uses the same locative case for both time and place expressions.
Yes. öğlen is a standalone adverb meaning “at noon.” It’s shorter and very common in speech:
• Öğlen evde uyuyorum.
öğle saatinde (“during the noon hour”) is slightly more descriptive or formal.
uyuyorum = I am sleeping (or more loosely, “I sleep (habitually).”)
Formation steps:
- Drop -mak/-mek from the infinitive uyumak → stem uyu-
- Add the progressive suffix -yor → uyuyor
- Add the 1st-person singular ending -um → uyuyorum
This -yor tense covers both actions happening right now and regular/habitual actions.
Yes, time and place adverbials are fairly flexible, e.g.:
• Öğle saatinde evde uyuyorum.
• Evde öğle saatinde uyuyorum.
You could even front the verb in poetic or marked contexts, but for everyday speech you’ll most often hear Time → Place → Verb.
Negative: insert -ma/-me before -yor:
• Ben öğle saatinde evde uyumuyorum. = “I am not sleeping at home at noon.”
Yes/No question: add the interrogative particle -mu/-mü/-mı/-mi after the verb stem and before the person ending:
• Ben öğle saatinde evde uyuyor muyum? = “Am I sleeping at home at noon?”