Çatlak duvardan su sızıyor.

the water

Breakdown of Çatlak duvardan su sızıyor.

• duvar: the wall
• -dan: from
• sızmak: to seep

Questions & Answers about Çatlak duvardan su sızıyor.

Why doesn’t çatlak take a case ending, while duvardan has -dan?

In Turkish, adjectives are indeclinable: they never take case or number suffixes. Only the noun can be marked for case. Here, çatlak is an adjective modifying duvar, and duvar alone receives the ablative suffix -dan (“from”).

What case is marked by -dan, and what does it express in duvardan?

The suffix -dan/-den is the ablative case. It expresses “from” or “out of.” So duvardan literally means “from the wall” (in context, “from the cracked wall”).

What is the basic word order of the sentence? Why does Çatlak duvardan come before su?

Turkish typically follows Subject-Object-Verb (SOV), but adverbial phrases (like location, time, source) come before the subject. Here you have:

1. Çatlak duvardan (ablative source)
2. su (subject)
3. sızıyor (verb)
   Because there’s no object, it reads naturally as [Adverbial]-[Subject]-[Verb].

How is the verb sızıyor formed, and what does it mean?

The verb comes from the root sız- (“to seep/leak”) plus the present-continuous suffix -ıyor. By vowel harmony (root has back vowel ı), the suffix is -ıyor, giving sızıyor = “is seeping” or “is leaking.”