Breakdown of Sıcak köfte kokusunu alınca yemeden edemiyorum.
Questions & Answers about Sıcak köfte kokusunu alınca yemeden edemiyorum.
Yes, almak very often means to take or to buy, but in Turkish it is also used in some fixed expressions.
Here, koku almak means:
- to smell
- to catch a smell
- to notice a scent
So Sıcak köfte kokusunu alınca is literally something like:
- when I get/catch the smell of hot meatballs
This is different from koklamak, which means to sniff something deliberately.
So:
- koku almak = to notice or catch a smell
- koklamak = to sniff
In this sentence, the idea is not that the speaker actively sniffs the meatballs, but that the smell reaches them.