Saksı verandada duruyor.

to stand

Breakdown of Saksı verandada duruyor.

• saksı: the pot
• verandada: on the veranda

Questions & Answers about Saksı verandada duruyor.

What does Saksı mean?

Saksı means flower pot or plant pot.

What case is verandada in, and what does it indicate?

Verandada is in the locative case, marked by the suffix -da, indicating location on the veranda.

Why is the suffix -da and not -de, -ta, or -te?

Turkish locative suffixes follow vowel harmony and consonant assimilation. The last vowel in veranda is a (a back vowel), so we use -da (back-vowel variant) rather than -de. There’s no consonant change because veranda ends in a vowel.

What does duruyor mean, and what’s its root?

Duruyor comes from the verb durmak (to stand, to stop, to be located). The root is dur-, and the present continuous suffix is -uyor, so duruyor literally means is standing or is located.

In English we’d say Why is used instead of a simple verb?