Questions & Answers about Kış çok soğuk.
Where is the verb is in this sentence? Why doesn’t Turkish use a separate word for is?
In Turkish, in simple present there is no separate word for is/are/am with third‑person nouns and adjectives.
So:
- Kış çok soğuk.
Literally: Winter very cold.
Interpreted as: Winter is very cold.
For he/she/it and they, when you say someone or something is + adjective or noun in the present, Turkish usually just puts the subject and the adjective/noun next to each other:
- O mutlu. → He/She is happy.
- Hava güzel. → The weather is nice.
- Kış çok soğuk. → Winter is very cold.
There is a suffix form (-dir / -dır / -dur / -dür) that can act like is, but in everyday speech it’s often omitted when talking about general, obvious facts.
Why doesn’t kış have an article like the or a? Shouldn’t it be the winter?