Word
Eve dönüş yolu on dakika sürüyor, bu yüzden erken çıkıyorum.
Meaning
The way home takes ten minutes, so I’m leaving early.
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Breakdown of Eve dönüş yolu on dakika sürüyor, bu yüzden erken çıkıyorum.
ev
the house
bu yüzden
so
dakika
the minute
yol
the way
Questions & Answers about Eve dönüş yolu on dakika sürüyor, bu yüzden erken çıkıyorum.
What does the word Eve mean here? Why not evde or evden?
- Eve = to home (dative case, -e/-a), showing movement toward a place.
- Evde = at home (locative case, -de/-da), showing location.
- Evden = from home (ablative case, -den/-dan), showing movement away from a place. In this sentence, the return is oriented toward home, so dative (Eve) is used.
How does dönüş yolu work, and why is it yolu with -u?
- Dönüş yolu is an indefinite noun compound (belirtisiz isim tamlaması): Noun1 + Noun2-(s)I.
- Here: dönüş (return) + yol-u (its way/road, 3rd person possessive).
- It literally means “the return way/route.” The -u on yol is the possessive marker of this compound; vowel harmony turns it into -u.
- So the subject is “the way/route of returning (home).”
Could I drop yolu and say Eve dönüş on dakika sürüyor?
Yes. Eve dönüş on dakika sürüyor is grammatical and means “Returning home takes ten minutes,” focusing on the activity rather than the route. Other natural variants:
- Eve dönmek on dakika sürüyor/sürer.
- Eve dönmem on dakika sürüyor. (my returning)
Who or what is the subject of sürüyor? Where is the “it”?