Breakdown of Cuma akşamı markete uğrayınca bir çikolata almadan edemiyorum.
bir
a
market
the market
çikolata
the chocolate
-ınca
when
Questions & Answers about Cuma akşamı markete uğrayınca bir çikolata almadan edemiyorum.
Why is it Cuma akşamı? What does the -ı on akşamı do?
Cuma akşamı is the normal Turkish way to say Friday evening.
The -ı is not an accusative ending here. It is part of an indefinite noun compound:
- Cuma akşamı = Friday evening
- öğle yemeği = lunch
- yaz tatili = summer vacation
So Cuma modifies akşamı, and the second noun takes that compound ending.
Also, Turkish usually does not use a separate word for English on in time expressions like this. So Cuma akşamı already means on Friday evening.
Does Cuma akşamı mean one specific Friday evening, or Friday evenings in general?
By itself, Cuma akşamı can refer to:
- a specific Friday evening, or
- Friday evening(s) in general
The context decides.
In this sentence, the overall feeling is habitual/repeated, because of:
- uğrayınca = when/whenever I stop by
- edemiyorum = I can’t help doing it / I end up doing it
So the sentence is naturally understood as something like Whenever I stop by the market on Friday evening(s), I can’t help buying a chocolate.
If the speaker wanted to make the repeated meaning even clearer, they could say Cuma akşamları = on Friday evenings.
Why is it markete and not marketi?