Breakdown of Pazartesi sabahları ben parkta yürüyorum.
ben
I
park
the park
yürümek
to walk
Pazartesi sabahları
on Monday mornings
Questions & Answers about Pazartesi sabahları ben parkta yürüyorum.
Why is there no word for on before Pazartesi?
Turkish normally does not use a separate word like on with days of the week.
A bare day name (like Pazartesi) by itself can already mean on Monday in a time expression.
So:
- Pazartesi sabahları ≈ on Monday mornings
- There is no need to say anything like on Pazartesi; that would be ungrammatical.
What exactly does sabahları mean, and how is it formed?
Sabahları comes from:
- sabah = morning
- -lar = plural suffix
- -ı = here it’s part of a set phrase making a time adverb
So sabahları literally looks like mornings, but it functions as in the mornings / every morning.
When you add -ları to a time word (day, part of the day), it very often means “at that time in general / on those Xs”, especially for habits:
- sabahları = in the mornings / every morning
- akşamları = in the evenings / every evening
- hafta sonları = on weekends
Thus Pazartesi sabahları = on Monday mornings (habitually, generally).
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