Questions & Answers about Toplantı saatinde başlayacak.
- Toplantı: meeting (subject, nominative; no article in Turkish)
- saat-i-nde: saat (hour/time) + 3rd person possessive -i (its) + locative -nde (at/in/on) → at its time / at the meeting time
- başla-yacak: verb stem başla- (to start) + buffer y
- future -acak → will start Literal reading: At the meeting time, it/he/she will start.
It’s two things stacked:
- 3rd person possessive -i on saat → saati (its hour)
- Locative case -de/-da meaning at/in/on; because the word ends in a vowel after possession, Turkish inserts a buffer n: saati + nde → saatinde So saatinde = at its hour.
- -de/-da follows vowel harmony: front vowels (e, i, ö, ü) take -de; back vowels (a, ı, o, u) take -da. The last vowel before the suffix is i (front), so -de.
- The n is a buffer letter used when adding a case to a possessed noun ending in a vowel (e.g., ev-i + nde → evinde, in his/her house).