Dayım yarın sinemaya gitmek istiyor.

Dayım means my maternal uncle — in other words, my mother’s brother.

It breaks down like this:

• dayı = maternal uncle
• -ım = my

So:

• dayı = uncle
• dayım = my uncle

A useful note: Turkish distinguishes between different kinds of uncles.

• dayı = mother’s brother
• amca = father’s brother

English just says uncle, but Turkish is more specific.

Because Turkish usually expresses to with a case ending, not a separate word.

Here:

• sinema = cinema / movie theater
• -ya = to / toward

So:

• sinemaya = to the cinema

This is the dative case, which often shows movement toward a place.

More examples:

• eve = to the house/home
• okula = to school
• markete = to the market

Because Turkish adds a buffer consonant -y- when a vowel-initial suffix is attached to a word that already ends in a vowel.

• sinema ends in a
• the dative ending here is -a
• Turkish inserts y between them

So:

• sinema + a → sinemaya

This happens a lot:

• araba + a → arabaya
• oda + a → odaya

The y just makes pronunciation smoother.

Yarın means tomorrow. It is a time expression telling you when the action is wanted.

In Turkish, time words often appear near the beginning of the sentence, but they do not need a special preposition like on or at here.

So:

• yarın = tomorrow

It works as an adverb of time.

Because after istemek (to want), Turkish commonly uses the infinitive form of the second verb.

• gitmek = to go
• istiyor = wants

So:

• gitmek istiyor = wants to go

This is very similar to English:

• He wants to go

Other examples:

• uyumak istiyor = he/she wants to sleep
• yemek yapmak istiyorum = I want to cook
• öğrenmek istiyoruz = we want to learn

İstiyor comes from the verb istemek, which means to want.

Here:

• iste- = verb stem
• -iyor = present continuous / present tense marker
• third person singular has no extra ending here

So:

• istiyor = he/she wants, is wanting

In everyday Turkish, this form often translates naturally as simple present English:

• gitmek istiyor = he/she wants to go

This is the Turkish present continuous suffix, which appears in forms like:

• geliyor = is coming / comes
• gidiyor = is going / goes
• istiyor = is wanting / wants

In practice, Turkish often uses this form where English would use either:

• is ...-ing or
• a simple present verb

So istiyor is the normal everyday way to say wants.

Turkish often omits subject pronouns when they are clear from context.

Here, the subject is already expressed by dayım (my uncle), so there is no need to add o (he/she/it).

English needs:

• My uncle wants to go...

Turkish simply says:

• Dayım ... istiyor.

This is very normal in Turkish.

The sentence follows a very typical Turkish pattern:

Subject + Time + Place/Direction + Infinitive + Main verb

So:

• Dayım = subject
• yarın = time
• sinemaya = direction/place
• gitmek = infinitive
• istiyor = main conjugated verb

Turkish is often described as an SOV language, and the main conjugated verb commonly comes at the end.

Yes. Turkish word order is fairly flexible, although some orders sound more neutral than others.

For example, these can work depending on emphasis:

• Dayım yarın sinemaya gitmek istiyor.
• Yarın dayım sinemaya gitmek istiyor.
• Sinemaya dayım yarın gitmek istiyor.
  (possible, but more marked)

The most neutral version here is the original one.

Changing the order often changes emphasis, not the core meaning.

Because many time expressions in Turkish can be used directly as adverbs without extra case endings.

So:

• yarın = tomorrow
• bugün = today
• dün = yesterday

They often appear in a sentence just as they are:

• Yarın geliyorum. = I’m coming tomorrow.
• Dün onu gördüm. = I saw him/her yesterday.

The most natural negative version is:

Dayım yarın sinemaya gitmek istemiyor.

That means:

• My uncle doesn’t want to go to the cinema tomorrow.

Here:

• istiyor = wants
• istemiyor = does not want / isn’t wanting

So the negative is made in the verb istemek, not in gitmek.

You can make it a yes/no question like this:

Dayım yarın sinemaya gitmek istiyor mu?

This means:

• Does my uncle want to go to the cinema tomorrow?

The question particle is:

• mu / mü / mı / mi

It changes according to vowel harmony, and here it is mu.

Yes. In Turkish, sinema can refer to:

• cinema as an art form
• the movie theater / movie theatre
• sometimes the general idea of going to the movies

So in a sentence like sinemaya gitmek, the meaning is usually:

• to go to the cinema
• to go to the movies
• to go to the movie theater

depending on context.

They mean different things:

• gitmek istiyor = wants to go
• gidiyor = is going / goes

So:

• Dayım yarın sinemaya gitmek istiyor.
  = My uncle wants to go to the cinema tomorrow.

• Dayım yarın sinemaya gidiyor.
  = My uncle is going to the cinema tomorrow.

The first expresses desire.
The second expresses actual movement or a plan.

A simple pronunciation guide would be:

dah-yuhm yah-ruhn see-neh-mah-yah geet-mek ees-tee-yor

A few useful points:

• ı in dayım is not the English i sound; it is a more central vowel.
• g in gitmek is always a hard g, as in get.
• c in Turkish is pronounced like English j, but there is no c in this sentence.
• sinemaya has the inserted y clearly pronounced.

You do not need to pronounce it exactly like the guide above, but it can help as a starting point.