Yarınki toplantıdan önce komodindeki not defterimi alacağım.

Before tomorrow’s meeting, I will take my notebook from the nightstand.

Breakdown of Yarınki toplantıdan önce komodindeki not defterimi alacağım.

• benim: my
• yarın: tomorrow
• önce: before
• almak: to take

Questions & Answers about Yarınki toplantıdan önce komodindeki not defterimi alacağım.

What does yarınki mean, and how is it formed?

Yarınki means tomorrow’s or the one for tomorrow.

It is formed from:

• yarın = tomorrow
• -ki = a suffix that can turn a time or place expression into something that modifies a noun

So:

• yarınki toplantı = tomorrow’s meeting / the meeting tomorrow

This -ki is very common with time words:

• dünkü gazete = yesterday’s newspaper
• bugünkü ders = today’s lesson

Why is it toplantıdan önce and not just toplantı önce?

Because önce normally works with the ablative case in Turkish.

So:

• toplantı = meeting
• toplantıdan = from the meeting
• toplantıdan önce = literally before the meeting

This is the normal pattern:

• dersten önce = before class
• yemekten önce = before the meal
• işten sonra = after work

English uses before + noun, but Turkish usually uses noun + ablative + önce.

Is önce a preposition like in English?