Toplantıdan sonra görüşürüz.

after

Breakdown of Toplantıdan sonra görüşürüz.

• toplantı: the meeting
• görüşürüz: see you

Questions & Answers about Toplantıdan sonra görüşürüz.

What does toplantıdan mean, and what is the -dan ending?

Toplantı means meeting. The ending -dan is the ablative case suffix, which often means from.

So:

• toplantı = meeting
• toplantıdan = from the meeting

In this sentence, it combines with sonra to mean after the meeting.

A very useful pattern is:

• X-dan / X-den sonra = after X

For example:

• dersten sonra = after class
• işten sonra = after work
• yemekten sonra = after the meal

Why does Turkish say toplantıdan sonra instead of just toplantı sonra?

Because sonra normally takes a noun in the ablative case.

So in Turkish, the standard pattern is not just meeting after, but literally something like from the meeting after:

• toplantıdan sonra = after the meeting

This is just how sonra works grammatically when it follows a noun or pronoun.

You will also see this with pronouns:

• ondan sonra = after that / after him / after her
• benden sonra = after me
• sizden sonra = after you