Breakdown of Her sabah yatağımı toplamadan evden çıkmıyorum.
ev
the house
benim
my
her
every
sabah
the morning
Questions & Answers about Her sabah yatağımı toplamadan evden çıkmıyorum.
What does her sabah mean, and why is it not her sabahı?
Her sabah means every morning.
Here, her means every/each, and it directly modifies sabah (morning). In Turkish, expressions like her gün, her sabah, her akşam do not take the accusative ending, because they are being used as time expressions, not as direct objects.
So:
- her sabah = every morning
- her gün = every day
- her hafta = every week
Her sabahı would sound wrong in this sentence.
Why is it yatağımı and not just yatak or yatağı?
Yatağımı breaks down like this:
- yatak = bed
- -ım = my
- -ı = accusative case
Because of sound changes, these combine as yatağımı.
So the full meaning is my bed as a definite direct object.
Why is this used? Because toplamak here is acting on a specific thing: my bed. Turkish usually marks definite direct objects with the accusative.
Compare:
- yatak toplamak = to tidy/make a bed in a general sense
- yatağımı toplamak = to make/tidy my bed