Annem kahvaltıdan sonra iki kayısı yedi ve çok beğendi.

My mother ate two apricots after breakfast and liked them very much.

Breakdown of Annem kahvaltıdan sonra iki kayısı yedi ve çok beğendi.

• çok: very
• yemek: to eat
• benim: my
• ve: and

Questions & Answers about Annem kahvaltıdan sonra iki kayısı yedi ve çok beğendi.

Why does annem mean my mother?

Because anne means mother, and the ending -m is the 1st person singular possessive suffix.

• anne = mother
• annem = my mother

This is very common with family words in Turkish:

• babam = my father
• ablam = my older sister
• dedem = my grandfather

What is going on in kahvaltıdan sonra?

This is a very common Turkish time expression.

• kahvaltı = breakfast
• -dan = the ablative ending, often meaning from
• sonra = after

So:

• kahvaltıdan sonra = after breakfast

Turkish uses the pattern:

noun + ablative + sonra

Examples:

• işten sonra = after work
• okuldan sonra = after school

Why is the ending -dan used in kahvaltıdan?