Nisan sonunda muhtar hanım, mahalledeki ilkbahar şenliğini duyurdu.

At the end of April, the female neighborhood head announced the spring festival in the neighborhood.

Breakdown of Nisan sonunda muhtar hanım, mahalledeki ilkbahar şenliğini duyurdu.

• son: the end
• duyurmak: to announce
• mahalle: the neighborhood
• -deki: in

Questions & Answers about Nisan sonunda muhtar hanım, mahalledeki ilkbahar şenliğini duyurdu.

Why does Nisan sonunda mean at the end of April?

Turkish often uses a compound-like pattern X sonu for the end of X.

• Nisan sonu = the end of April
• Nisan sonunda = at/in the end of April

So sonunda is built from sonu + locative -da. The -n- is a buffer consonant that appears before the case ending. You may also hear Nisan'ın sonunda, which is a more explicitly possessive version, but Nisan sonunda is very common.

What is a muhtar?

A muhtar is an elected local head of a village or urban neighborhood in Turkey. In this sentence, because mahalle means neighborhood, muhtar refers to the neighborhood head.

There is no perfect one-word English equivalent, so translations vary: neighborhood head, local head, or sometimes just muhtar.

Why is hanım added after muhtar?

Hanım is a polite title for a woman, roughly like Ms., Mrs., or Madam, depending on context.

So muhtar hanım is a respectful way to refer to a female muhtar. It sounds more polite than just saying muhtar by itself.

What does mahalledeki mean, and how is it formed?