Questions & Answers about Bu oda temiz ve düzgün.
Why is there no word for is in this sentence?
In Turkish, the present-tense to be is often left out in simple third-person sentences.
So:
- Bu oda temiz ve düzgün.
- literally: This room clean and neat.
- natural English: This room is clean and neat.
Turkish does this very often with sentences like:
- O mutlu. = He/She is happy.
- Ev büyük. = The house is big.
If you want a more formal, emphatic, or written style, you can add -dir:
- Bu oda temiz ve düzgündür.
That still means the same thing, but sounds more formal or assertive.
What does bu mean here?
Bu means this.
So bu oda = this room.
Turkish has a three-way set of common demonstratives:
- bu = this
- şu = that / this over there
- o = that
In this sentence, bu points to a room that is close to the speaker or being directly referred to.
Why are temiz and düzgün after oda? I thought Turkish adjectives come before nouns.