Yağmur yağınca kirpiklerim birbirine yapışıyor.

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Breakdown of Yağmur yağınca kirpiklerim birbirine yapışıyor.

• yağmur: the rain
• yağmak: to rain
• birbir: each other

Questions & Answers about Yağmur yağınca kirpiklerim birbirine yapışıyor.

Why does Turkish say yağmur yağınca? Isn’t that literally something like rain rains?

Yes, literally it looks that way.

• yağmur = rain (noun)
• yağmak = to rain / to fall (verb used for rain, snow, etc.)

So yağmur yağıyor is the normal Turkish way to say it is raining. Turkish does not use a dummy subject like English it in it is raining.

So yağmur yağınca is a very normal structure, not strange or redundant to a Turkish speaker.

What does -ınca mean in yağınca?

-ınca / -ince / -unca / -ünce is a verb ending that usually means:

• when
• once
• whenever
• sometimes as soon as

So:

• yağınca = when it rains
• gelince = when he/she comes
• bitince = when it finishes

In this sentence, yağmur yağınca means when it rains.

How is kirpiklerim built?

It breaks down like this:

• kirpik = eyelash
• -ler = plural
• -im = my

So kirpiklerim literally means my eyelashes.

Turkish often attaches possession directly to the noun instead of using a separate word like English my.