Köpek evin arkasında uyuyor.

the house

Breakdown of Köpek evin arkasında uyuyor.

• köpek: the dog
• uyumak: to sleep
• arkasında: behind

Questions & Answers about Köpek evin arkasında uyuyor.

Why is it evin instead of just ev?

Because Turkish is saying something like the back of the house.

To build that, Turkish uses:

• ev = house
• evin = of the house / the house’s

The ending -in is the genitive suffix. So evin shows that house is the possessor in the phrase evin arkası = the back of the house.

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What does arkasında break down into?

Arkasında has several parts:

• arka = back, rear
• -sı = a possessive ending here used in the construction evin arkası = the back of the house
• -nda = in/on/at, the locative ending, with a buffer n

So:

• evin arkası = the back of the house
• evin arkasında = at the back of the house / behind the house

This is a very common Turkish pattern for location expressions.

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Why is there a possessive ending on arka if the sentence does not literally mean its back in English?