Sırtımda hâlâ ağrı var.

the pain

Breakdown of Sırtımda hâlâ ağrı var.

• var: to exist
• hâlâ: still
• sırt: the back (body part)

Questions & Answers about Sırtımda hâlâ ağrı var.

What does each part of Sırtımda hâlâ ağrı var mean?

A natural word-by-word breakdown is:

• sırt = back
• -ım = my
• -da = in / on / at
• hâlâ = still
• ağrı = pain
• var = there is / exists

So the sentence is literally something like:

On my back / In my back, there is still pain.

In natural English, that becomes something like I still have pain in my back or My back still hurts, depending on context.

Why is sırtımda one word?

Because Turkish often adds grammatical endings directly onto a noun instead of using separate words.

Here:

• sırt = back
• sırtım = my back
• sırtımda = in/on my back

So -ım is the possessive ending meaning my, and -da is the locative ending meaning in/on/at.

This kind of stacking is very normal in Turkish:

• ev = house
• evim = my house
• evimde = in my house

Why is -da used here?