Taze kahve kokusu mutfağı sardı.

fresh

Breakdown of Taze kahve kokusu mutfağı sardı.

• mutfak: the kitchen
• kahve: the coffee
• koku: the smell

Questions & Answers about Taze kahve kokusu mutfağı sardı.

Why is it kokusu and not just koku?

Because kahve kokusu is a common Turkish noun compound.

• koku = smell, scent
• kokusu = its smell / the smell of it

In this kind of structure, the first noun names what something is related to, and the second noun usually takes a 3rd-person possessive ending:

• kahve kokusu = coffee smell / the smell of coffee
• ev kapısı = house door / the door of a house
• araba sesi = car sound / the sound of a car

So kokusu is the normal form here.

Why is it kahve kokusu instead of kahvenin kokusu?

Both are possible, but they mean slightly different things.

• kahve kokusu = coffee smell / the smell of coffee in a general descriptive sense
• kahvenin kokusu = the smell of the coffee, referring to a more specific coffee

In this sentence, kahve kokusu sounds more natural because it describes the kind of smell filling the kitchen. It is more like a label: fresh coffee smell.

Does taze describe kahve or kokusu?

Grammatically, taze most directly modifies kahve.

So the phrase is literally:

• taze kahve kokusu = fresh coffee smell

In natural English, that usually becomes the smell of fresh coffee.

If Turkish wanted to emphasize that the smell itself was fresh, it would usually be phrased differently. Here the normal reading is that the coffee is fresh.