Çayı da demleyiverdim; herkes sıcacık içsin.

to drink

Breakdown of Çayı da demleyiverdim; herkes sıcacık içsin.

• çay: the tea
• da: also
• herkes: everyone

Questions & Answers about Çayı da demleyiverdim; herkes sıcacık içsin.

What does the ending in çayı do? Why not just çay?

• çayı is the definite direct object: the accusative suffix -ı marks that it’s a specific tea (the tea).
• Without the accusative, çay demledim means I brewed (some) tea, not a particular one.
• Vowel harmony picks -ı after the back, unrounded vowel in çay. The y you see is part of the stem; it’s not a buffer here.

What does da add in çayı da?

• da/de is the additive enclitic meaning also/too/as well. Here it means: I went ahead and brewed the tea, too.
• It attaches to the word it emphasizes, so çayı da emphasizes the tea as the added item.

Why is it da, not de, and how do I spell it?

• Choose da after back vowels (a, ı, o, u) and de after front vowels (e, i, ö, ü). The last vowel in çayı is ı, so it’s da.
• The additive da/de is written as a separate word: çayı da.
• Don’t confuse it with the locative suffix -da/-de (in/at/on), which is attached to the word: çayda would mean in the tea. The additive is never written as ta/te in standard spelling.