Marangoz sabah gelecek; kırık sandalyeyi onaracak.

The carpenter will come in the morning; she will fix the broken chair.

Breakdown of Marangoz sabah gelecek; kırık sandalyeyi onaracak.

• gelmek: to come
• sabah: morning
• sandalye: the chair
• kırık: broken

Questions & Answers about Marangoz sabah gelecek; kırık sandalyeyi onaracak.

Why do the verbs come at the end?

Turkish defaults to Subject–Object–Verb order. So:

• Clause 1: Subject Marangoz
  • time adverb sabah
    • verb gelecek.
• Clause 2: (Subject understood = the same carpenter) + object kırık sandalyeyi
  • verb onaracak. Placing the verb last is the neutral pattern; other elements can move for emphasis.

Why is sabah used without a preposition or a suffix like -da?

Words for parts of the day often work as adverbs by themselves. Sabah already means “in the morning,” so no preposition is needed. Alternatives:

• Specific next morning: yarın sabah
• More literary/explicit: sabahleyin
• Habitual: sabahları Avoid forms like sabahta for “in the morning”; that’s not idiomatic.

What does the semicolon do here? Could I use something else?

The semicolon links two closely related independent clauses. You could also write:

• With a conjunction: Marangoz sabah gelecek ve kırık sandalyeyi onaracak.
• As two sentences: Marangoz sabah gelecek. Kırık sandalyeyi onaracak. Don’t use just a comma to join the clauses in formal writing.