Komşum darılınca ona çay götürdüm ve konuştuk.

When my neighbor got offended, I took her tea and we talked.

Breakdown of Komşum darılınca ona çay götürdüm ve konuştuk.

• çay: the tea
• benim: my
• ve: and
• komşu: the neighbor

Questions & Answers about Komşum darılınca ona çay götürdüm ve konuştuk.

Why is komşum translated as my neighbor? What does the -um mean?

Komşu means neighbor. The ending -um is the 1st person singular possessive suffix, so:

• komşu = neighbor
• komşum = my neighbor

Turkish often leaves out the separate word benim (my) when the possessive ending already shows the meaning. So komşum by itself already means my neighbor.

What does darılınca mean exactly?

Darılınca comes from:

• darılmak = to get offended, to be upset, to take offense, to sulk
• -ınca / -ince = when, once, sometimes after

So darılınca means something like:

• when he/she got offended
• when he/she became upset
• once he/she got upset

In this sentence, it introduces the situation that happened before the main action.

Is -ınca a tense ending?