Tren çoktan geldi.

The train has already arrived.

Breakdown of Tren çoktan geldi.

• gelmek: to come
• tren: the train
• çoktan: already

Questions & Answers about Tren çoktan geldi.

Why is there no word for the in Tren çoktan geldi?

Turkish does not use articles like the or a/an. The noun tren simply means train in a neutral way.

Whether you translate tren as the train or a train depends on context:

• Tren çoktan geldi. → The train has already arrived. (if both speakers know which train)
• Bir tren çoktan geldi. → A train has already arrived. (introducing it for the first time)

If you really want to stress a train, you add bir before the noun. For the, there is no word; context and shared knowledge do the job.

What exactly does çoktan mean, and how is it different from zaten?