Cuma akşamları parkta yürüyüş yapıyorum.

On Friday evenings I take a walk in the park.

Breakdown of Cuma akşamları parkta yürüyüş yapıyorum.

• park: the park
• yürüyüş yapmak: to take a walk
• Cuma akşamları: on Friday evenings

Questions & Answers about Cuma akşamları parkta yürüyüş yapıyorum.

What is the exact structure and meaning of akşamları? Why is it not just akşam?

Akşamları is built from:

• akşam = evening
• -lar = plural suffix
• -ı = 3rd person possessive suffix (its)

Literally, akşam-lar-ı could mean its evenings, but in time expressions it gets a special, idiomatic meaning: in the evenings / on evenings / evenings (habitually).

So in Cuma akşamları:

• Cuma akşamı = (the) Friday evening (one specific evening)
• Cuma akşamları = Friday evenings (in general, habitually, on Friday evenings)

Similar patterns:

• sabahları = in the mornings / on mornings
• öğlenleri = at lunchtimes
• geceleri = at night(s)

So akşamları here signals a repeated/habitual time, not one specific evening.

Why doesn’t Cuma have any ending like -da, -de, etc.? Why is it just Cuma akşamları?