Ben kahvaltıda ekmekle erik reçeli yiyorum.

Not usually. Turkish verb endings already show the subject, and yiyor-um already means I am eating.

So this sentence could simply be:

Kahvaltıda ekmekle erik reçeli yiyorum.

Adding ben makes the subject more explicit. It can add emphasis, contrast, or clarity, like:

I eat bread and plum jam for breakfast, not someone else.

Kahvaltı means breakfast.

The ending -da is the locative suffix, which often means in, at, on depending on context. So:

• kahvaltı = breakfast
• kahvaltıda = at breakfast / during breakfast

In natural English, this may be translated as for breakfast, even though the Turkish structure is closer to at breakfast.

Yes. -le / -la is the attached form of ile, which means with.

So:

• ekmek ile = with bread
• ekmekle = with bread

The attached form is very common in everyday Turkish.

Here, ekmekle means with bread.

Grammatically, it is closer to:

I eat plum jam with bread.

That is because:

• ekmekle = with bread
• erik reçeli = plum jam
• yiyorum = I am eating

So the main thing being eaten is erik reçeli, and ekmekle tells you what it is eaten with.

In natural English, though, you might translate the whole sentence more loosely as:

I eat bread and plum jam for breakfast.

This is a very common Turkish noun-compound pattern.

Erik reçeli means plum jam, and it follows a structure where the second noun gets a special ending:

• erik = plum
• reçel = jam
• reçeli = jam of plum / plum jam

This does not mean literal possession in the English sense. It is just how many Turkish compound nouns are formed.

Other examples:

• elma suyu = apple juice
• domates çorbası = tomato soup
• köy ekmeği = village bread

Because the object here is non-specific or general.

In Turkish, a direct object often has:

• no accusative if it is indefinite or generic
• accusative if it is definite/specific

So:

• erik reçeli yiyorum = I am eating plum jam / I eat plum jam
• erik reçelini yiyorum = I am eating the plum jam / that specific plum jam

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about what they eat for breakfast in a general way, so the non-accusative form is natural.

The dictionary form of the verb is yemek = to eat.

Its stem is ye-.

The present continuous is formed with -iyor, plus the personal ending:

• ye-
• -iyor
• -um = I

These combine into yiyorum.

So although the pieces come from ye + iyor + um, Turkish does not keep all those vowels separately. The result is the standard form:

yiyorum = I am eating

This is one of those forms you should learn as a whole.

-um is the first-person singular ending, meaning I.

So:

• yiyor = is eating
• yiyorum = I am eating
• yiyorsun = you are eating
• yiyor = he/she/it is eating
• yiyoruz = we are eating

This is another reason ben is optional: the verb already tells you the subject.

Not completely. Turkish word order is more flexible than English, although the verb is very often placed at the end.

This sentence has a neutral, natural order:

Ben kahvaltıda ekmekle erik reçeli yiyorum.

Very roughly:

• Ben = subject
• kahvaltıda = time/context
• ekmekle = with bread
• erik reçeli = object
• yiyorum = verb

You can move some parts around for emphasis, but yiyorum at the end is the most normal choice.

Turkish does not use articles the same way English does.

So nouns often appear without a word corresponding directly to a or the. Whether something is general, indefinite, or specific is usually understood from:

• context
• case marking
• word order

So ekmek can mean bread, some bread, or the bread depending on the situation, and the same is true for erik reçeli.