Questions & Answers about Kahvaltı yapmadan önce bir bardak su içiyorum.
Word-by-word:
- kahvaltı – breakfast
- yapmadan – without doing / without making
- yap- – to do, to make
- -ma – negative suffix (not)
- -dan – “from” (ablative) → together -madan = “without doing”
- önce – before
- bir – one / a
- bardak – glass (as a container)
- su – water
- içiyorum – I am drinking / I drink
- iç- – to drink
- -iyor – present continuous tense
- -um – 1st person singular “I”
So the structure is: Before (without-doing breakfast), a glass (of) water I-drink.