Hava sıcak olunca çamaşırlar balkonda daha çabuk kuruyor.

to be

Breakdown of Hava sıcak olunca çamaşırlar balkonda daha çabuk kuruyor.

• sıcak: hot
• daha: more
• hava: the weather

Questions & Answers about Hava sıcak olunca çamaşırlar balkonda daha çabuk kuruyor.

Why is there no word for is in Hava sıcak?

In Turkish, a present-tense sentence with an adjective often does not need a separate verb meaning to be.

So:

• Hava sıcak = The weather is warm
• literally: weather warm

This is very normal Turkish. English needs is, but Turkish often leaves it out in this kind of sentence.

In your full sentence, olunca is added later to build the when... clause, so you get Hava sıcak olunca.

What exactly does olunca mean here?

Olunca here means something like:

• when it is
• when it gets
• once it is
• sometimes even since/as it is

It comes from olmak = to be / to become, plus the ending -ınca / -ince, which makes a time or condition clause.

So:

• sıcak olunca = when it is warm / when it becomes warm

In natural English, this whole part is usually translated as when the weather is warm.

Is olunca more like when, if, or because?