Üst geçit yağmurda kaygan oluyor; dikkatle çık.

to be

Breakdown of Üst geçit yağmurda kaygan oluyor; dikkatle çık.

• yağmur: the rain
• -da: in
• kaygan: slippery

Questions & Answers about Üst geçit yağmurda kaygan oluyor; dikkatle çık.

What exactly does Üst geçit refer to? Is it a pedestrian bridge or any overpass?

Üst geçit literally means “upper passage” and in everyday Turkish it refers to a pedestrian overpass/footbridge that lets people cross above a road. For vehicle overpasses you’ll also hear terms like köprülü kavşak, vi(y)adük, or simply köprü depending on the structure.

Should Üst geçit be written as one word or two?

Both are seen, but the standard form is one word: üstgeçit. Writing it as two words (üst geçit) is common in informal contexts and is still understood.

Why is it yağmurda with the suffix -da? What does that add?

The locative suffix -DA means “in/at/on,” and with time nouns it also means “during.” So yağmurda = “in the rain / when it’s raining.”
Form details:

• Vowel harmony: after a back vowel (a/ı/o/u), use -da; after a front vowel (e/i/ö/ü), use -de. Here, yağmur has back vowels, so da.
• Voicing: the suffix’s initial consonant is d after a voiced sound; it becomes t (i.e., -ta/-te) after a voiceless consonant. Yağmur ends in the voiced consonant r, so we get da, not ta.