Soğuk havada kalınca çok hapşırıyorum.

cold

Breakdown of Soğuk havada kalınca çok hapşırıyorum.

• kalmak: to stay
• hava: the weather
• -da: in

Questions & Answers about Soğuk havada kalınca çok hapşırıyorum.

What does soğuk havada mean literally?

It breaks down like this:

• soğuk = cold
• hava = air / weather
• -da = the locative ending, meaning in / at / on

So soğuk havada literally means in cold weather or in the cold air. In natural English, you would often just say in the cold.

Why is it havada and not just hava?

Because Turkish uses the locative case here.

• hava = weather / air
• havada = in the weather / in the air

The sentence is describing the situation or environment where the sneezing happens, so Turkish marks that with -da / -de.

This is very common:

• evde = at home
• okulda = at school
• soğuk havada = in cold weather

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