Hava giderek ısınıyor.

the weather

Breakdown of Hava giderek ısınıyor.

• ısınmak: to warm up
• giderek: increasingly

Questions & Answers about Hava giderek ısınıyor.

What does giderek mean in this sentence and how is it used?

Giderek is an adverb meaning “gradually,” “increasingly,” or “more and more.” It modifies the verb ısınıyor to show that the warming happens step by step. In Turkish, adverbs like giderek usually precede the verb they describe.

Why is there a y in ısınıyor? Is that part of the verb root?

The verb root here is ısın- (to get warm). The present-continuous suffix is -yor. Since ısın- ends in a vowel, Turkish inserts the buffer consonant y before -yor to avoid two vowels in a row. Vowel harmony then keeps -yor unchanged (because ı is a back vowel): ısın-y-or → ısınıyor.

Why isn’t there a subject pronoun (“it” or “the weather”) in the sentence?

Turkish is a pro-drop language: subject pronouns are often omitted when the verb ending already indicates person and number. Here -yor is third-person singular, so “hava” (the weather) is understood as the subject without needing o.

What’s the difference between ısınmak and ısıtmak?

Isınmak is intransitive: “to become warm” or “to get hot.”
Isıtmak is transitive: “to warm (something) up” or “to heat.”
So hava ısınıyor means “the weather is getting warmer,” not “someone is warming the weather.”