Learn Hardcore Turkish: Fındık taze.

In Turkish, the present-tense form of the verb to be is usually omitted. When you link a noun and an adjective in a simple statement, you don’t need any form of “to be.”
So Fındık taze literally consists of noun + adjective, but it functions as “The nuts are fresh.”

Why doesn’t fındık have “the” or “a” in front of it?

Turkish has no articles equivalent to English “a/an” or “the.” Context tells you whether a noun is definite, indefinite, or generic.

Fındık taze. can mean “Nuts are fresh,” “The nuts are fresh,” or simply “Hazelnuts are fresh,” depending on context.

Is fındık singular or plural here?

Many Turkish nouns can serve as both singular and plural in generic statements.

Here fındık means “hazelnuts” (a mass or general sense).
If you want to be explicitly plural (“the hazelnuts are fresh”), you can say Fındıklar taze.

Why is the adjective taze placed after the noun rather than before?