Kaban ağır olsa da çizme ve şemsiyeyle yağmurlu günler daha kolay geçiyor.

Olsa da means even though / although it may be.

It comes from:

• olmak = to be / to become
• olsa = the conditional form, roughly if it is / even if it is
• da = adds the concessive sense here: even though / although

So:

• Kaban ağır olsa da = Although the coat is heavy / Even though the coat is heavy

This is a very common Turkish pattern:

• Yorgun olsa da geldi. = Although he/she was tired, he/she came.
• Pahalı olsa da alacağım. = Even though it is expensive, I’ll buy it.

All of these are possible in different styles, but they do slightly different things.

• ağırdır sounds more formal or definite: it is heavy
• ağır ama = it is heavy but..., more direct and conversational
• ağır olsa da = although it is heavy / even though it is heavy, which sounds smoother and more connected to the second clause

So:

• Kaban ağır ama... = The coat is heavy, but...
• Kaban ağır olsa da... = Although the coat is heavy...

In this sentence, olsa da is used because the speaker wants a concessive structure: one fact is true, but the main point still follows.

They are the same in meaning.

• şemsiye ile = with an umbrella
• şemsiyeyle = a contracted, very common spoken-and-written form

The suffix-like form of ile often becomes:

• -le / -la
• and after vowels it usually appears with y: -yle / -yla

So:

• şemsiye + ile → şemsiyeyle
• araba + ile → arabayla
• kalem + ile → kalemle

In this sentence, çizme ve şemsiyeyle means with boots and an umbrella.

In Turkish, singular nouns are often used in a general or category sense where English might also think of a plural.

Here çizme means boots in a general sense, like footwear of that type. Turkish does not always need the plural marker when speaking generally.

Also, çizme can refer to boots as an item/category, much like English sometimes says wearing boot leather or with proper footwear.

You could hear or say çizmeler in some contexts, but çizme here sounds natural and idiomatic.

It means with.

So:

• şemsiyeyle = with an umbrella
• if expanded, çizme ve şemsiyeyle = with boots and an umbrella

This suffix can express:

1. accompaniment / together with

   • arkadaşıyla geldi = he/she came with his/her friend

2. instrument / means

   • kalemle yazdı = he/she wrote with a pen

In this sentence, it has an instrumental/supportive meaning: rainy days become easier with boots and an umbrella.

Yes, yağmurlu günler is the grammatical subject here.

Literally, the sentence is something like:

• Rainy days pass more easily with boots and an umbrella, although the coat is heavy.

Turkish often uses geçmek in expressions about time passing:

• Gün çabuk geçti. = The day passed quickly.
• Zor günler geçiyor. = Difficult days are passing.
• Kış iyi geçiyor. = Winter is going well.

So yağmurlu günler daha kolay geçiyor means that rainy days are easier to get through.

English would usually phrase it less literally, but Turkish naturally lets days be the thing that passes.

Yes, literally geçiyor is is passing or passes.

It comes from:

• geçmek = to pass

In this sentence, though, it has the idiomatic meaning of:

• to go by
• to be spent
• to be gotten through

So yağmurlu günler daha kolay geçiyor is literally rainy days pass more easily, but the natural meaning is closer to:

• rainy days are easier to get through
• rainy days go more easily

This is a very common Turkish way of talking about periods of time.

Turkish -iyor can cover both:

• an action happening now
• a general ongoing situation
• something that regularly happens

So geçiyor here does not have to mean only is passing right now at this exact moment. It can also mean something like:

• tend to pass
• go by
• are going

In natural English, we might translate it with a simple present or another smoother expression, but Turkish commonly uses -iyor for general current realities.

Compare:

• İşler iyi gidiyor. = Things are going well.
• Kış zor geçiyor. = Winter is going hard.
• Yağmurlu günler daha kolay geçiyor. = Rainy days are easier to get through.

Turkish does not have articles like English a/an and the.

So:

• kaban can mean the coat or a coat, depending on context
• çizme can mean boots / a boot type item
• şemsiye can mean an umbrella / the umbrella
• yağmurlu günler = rainy days

The exact meaning is understood from context.

In this sentence, English naturally uses something like:

• Although the coat is heavy, rainy days are easier with boots and an umbrella.

But Turkish does not need separate words for the and an.

Yes, the word order is normal.

Turkish word order is flexible, and speakers often move parts around to emphasize different things.

This sentence starts with:

• Kaban ağır olsa da... = Although the coat is heavy...

That puts the contrast first. It sets up the idea:

• one inconvenience exists (the coat is heavy),
• but despite that, rainy days are still easier with the right things.

If you started with Yağmurlu günler..., the focus would be different. The current order highlights the contrast more clearly.

Daha kolay means easier / more easily.

Turkish uses daha for comparison:

• kolay = easy / easily
• daha kolay = easier / more easily

The comparison does not always have to be stated explicitly. Here the meaning is:

• rainy days are easier than they would be without boots and an umbrella
• or easier than otherwise

This kind of implied comparison is very common in both Turkish and English.

A very literal translation would be:

• Although the coat is heavy, rainy days pass more easily with boots and an umbrella.

That is understandable in English, but a bit less natural than the Turkish original. More natural English versions might be:

• Although the coat is heavy, rainy days are easier with boots and an umbrella.
• Even though the coat is heavy, boots and an umbrella make rainy days easier.
• Although the coat is heavy, rainy days are easier to get through with boots and an umbrella.

So the Turkish structure is natural, even if the most literal English version sounds slightly unusual.

Yes. In this sentence they sound quite generic.

• kaban = a coat / the coat
• çizme = boots
• şemsiye = an umbrella

The sentence feels like a general observation about dealing with rainy weather, not necessarily a very specific one-time event.

That is why the whole sentence can be understood as something like:

• Even though the coat is heavy, rainy days are easier with boots and an umbrella.

It sounds like practical advice or a general truth.