Teyzem nikâhta takılacak alyansları görünce çok duygulandı.

Teyze means maternal aunt — your mother’s sister. Turkish distinguishes this from hala, which is your father’s sister.

The -m at the end means my, so:

• teyze = aunt
• teyzem = my maternal aunt

This is a very common Turkish pattern: possession is often shown by an ending instead of a separate word like my.

For example:

• annem = my mother
• babam = my father
• teyzem = my aunt

Nikâh refers to the marriage ceremony, especially the formal/legal wedding ceremony.

The ending -ta is the locative case, meaning in / at / during.

So:

• nikâh = marriage ceremony
• nikâhta = at the wedding ceremony / during the ceremony

The form is -ta rather than -da because of consonant harmony: after a voiceless consonant like h, Turkish uses -ta / -te instead of -da / -de.

Compare:

• evde = at home
• okulda = at school
• nikâhta = at the marriage ceremony

Takılacak comes from takılmak and here means that will be put on / that are going to be worn.

In this sentence, it describes the rings:

• nikâhta takılacak alyanslar = the wedding rings that will be put on at the ceremony

The ending -acak / -ecek often gives a future sense:

• gelecek = will come / coming
• yapılacak = will be done
• takılacak = will be put on

So this is basically a participle: it turns a verb into something that can describe a noun.

Good question. This is because takılmak is the form that works here for something being put on / attached / worn, rather than someone actively putting it on.

Compare:

• takmak = to put on, attach
• takılmak = to be put on / to get attached / to be worn

In the sentence, the focus is on the rings as the things that will be put on during the ceremony, not on the person doing the action.

So:

• takacak alyanslar would sound more like rings that will put on..., which does not fit
• takılacak alyanslar = rings that will be put on

This kind of passive-like wording is very natural in Turkish.

Alyans means wedding ring or band.

Here alyansları means the wedding rings as a specific object being seen.

It is built like this:

• alyans = wedding ring
• alyanslar = wedding rings
• alyansları = the wedding rings (as a definite object)

In context, -ı is the accusative case, which is used for a specific/definite direct object.

So:

• alyanslar = wedding rings (general / indefinite)
• alyansları = the wedding rings (specific ones)

Since the aunt saw particular rings, Turkish uses the definite object form.

Yes, in isolation it could be ambiguous.

Alyansları can sometimes mean:

• the rings
  or
• his/her/their rings

But in this sentence, the natural reading is the wedding rings, because of the context:

• nikâhta takılacak alyansları = the wedding rings that will be put on at the ceremony

There is no strong reason here to understand it as his/her rings. Turkish often allows this kind of ambiguity, and context usually resolves it.

Görünce means when (she) saw or upon seeing.

It comes from:

• görmek = to see
• görünce = when seeing / when she saw

This -ince / -ınca / -ünce / -unca ending creates a time relationship, often meaning:

• when
• once
• as soon as

So in this sentence:

• ...alyansları görünce çok duygulandı = when she saw the rings, she became very emotional

Yes. In this sentence, the understood subject of görünce is the same as the main subject: teyzem.

So the meaning is:

• My aunt saw the rings
• My aunt became very emotional

This is very common in Turkish. A form like görünce often shares its subject with the main clause unless something else is clearly stated.

So the structure is essentially:

• Teyzem ... görünce ... duygulandı.
• My aunt, when she saw ..., became emotional.

Duygulanmak means to become emotional, to be moved, or to be touched emotionally.

So:

• duygulandı = became emotional / was moved
• çok duygulandı = became very emotional / was deeply moved

This does not necessarily mean sadness. It often suggests a strong emotional reaction, possibly involving tenderness, sentiment, happiness, or tears.

In this sentence, it sounds like the aunt was emotionally touched by seeing the wedding rings.

Yes, Turkish word order is flexible, but this order is very natural.

The sentence is:

• Teyzem nikâhta takılacak alyansları görünce çok duygulandı.

A rough structure is:

• Teyzem = my aunt
• nikâhta takılacak alyansları = the wedding rings that will be put on at the ceremony
• görünce = when she saw
• çok duygulandı = became very emotional

Turkish often places descriptive material before the noun it describes, and subordinate verb forms like görünce naturally come before the main verb.

You could move elements for emphasis, but the given sentence is standard and smooth.

Because Turkish usually does this with a participle, not with a separate relative pronoun like English that.

In English:

• the rings that will be put on at the ceremony

In Turkish:

• nikâhta takılacak alyanslar

Here takılacak does the job of that will be put on and directly modifies alyanslar.

This is one of the most important differences between English and Turkish sentence structure:

• English often uses who / that / which
• Turkish often uses a verb form placed before the noun

Not exactly.

• nikâh = the formal marriage ceremony
• düğün = the wedding celebration, wedding event more generally

Sometimes they happen together, but they are not the same word.

So nikâhta takılacak alyanslar specifically points to the rings used in the actual marriage ceremony, not just any part of the wedding festivities.

A fairly literal breakdown is:

• Teyzem = my maternal aunt
• nikâhta = at the marriage ceremony
• takılacak = that will be put on
• alyansları = the wedding rings
• görünce = when she saw
• çok duygulandı = became very emotional

So very literally:

My aunt, when she saw the wedding rings that would be put on at the marriage ceremony, became very emotional.

That sounds a bit stiff in English, but it matches the Turkish structure well.