Vişne suyu çok ekşi olunca kız kardeşim biraz şeker ekledi.

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Breakdown of Vişne suyu çok ekşi olunca kız kardeşim biraz şeker ekledi.

• çok: very
• benim: my
• kız kardeş: the sister

Questions & Answers about Vişne suyu çok ekşi olunca kız kardeşim biraz şeker ekledi.

What does vişne mean? Is it just cherry?

Not exactly. Vişne means sour cherry or morello cherry, not the sweet cherry you would usually call kiraz in Turkish.

So:

• vişne = sour cherry
• kiraz = sweet cherry

That is why vişne suyu is specifically sour cherry juice.

Why is it vişne suyu and not vişne su?

This is a very common Turkish noun-compound pattern.

When one noun describes another noun, the second noun usually takes a compound marker that looks like a 3rd-person possessive ending. So:

• elma suyu = apple juice
• portakal suyu = orange juice
• vişne suyu = sour cherry juice

So vişne suyu literally looks something like its sour-cherry water/juice, but in normal English you should simply understand it as sour cherry juice.

Also, su is a slightly irregular word. In compounds and possessive forms, it becomes suyu.

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