Soğukta bekleyince ellerim de uyuşuyor.

my

Breakdown of Soğukta bekleyince ellerim de uyuşuyor.

• de: also
• beklemek: to wait
• el: the hand

Questions & Answers about Soğukta bekleyince ellerim de uyuşuyor.

What does soğukta mean, and why is there -ta on soğuk?

Soğukta means in the cold or in cold weather.

The ending -ta is the locative suffix, which often means in, at, on.

• soğuk = cold
• soğukta = in the cold

It appears as -ta rather than -da because of consonant harmony: after the voiceless consonant k, Turkish uses the voiceless form -ta.

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What does bekleyince mean exactly?

Bekleyince comes from beklemek = to wait.

It is made of:

• bekle- = wait
• -(y)ince = when, once, sometimes if

So bekleyince means something like:

• when I wait
• when one waits
• if I wait

In this sentence, the most natural meaning is when I wait in the cold.

The y is just a buffer sound, added because bekle- ends in a vowel.

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Why is there no word for I in bekleyince?