Yara hâlâ sızlıyor.

• yara = wound, sore
• hâlâ = still
• sızlıyor = is aching / is smarting / is throbbing

A very natural English translation is The wound still hurts or The wound is still throbbing.

Turkish does not use articles the way English does.

So yara can mean:

• a wound
• the wound
• sometimes wound(s) in a more general sense

Context tells you which one is meant. In this sentence, English will usually say the wound.

Hâlâ means still or yet in the sense of something continuing.

So:

• Yara hâlâ sızlıyor. = The wound still hurts.

It tells you that the pain has not stopped.

The circumflex in hâlâ helps distinguish it from hala.

• hâlâ = still
• hala = paternal aunt

In standard spelling, it is best to keep the circumflex here. In casual texting, people sometimes leave it out, but that is less precise.

It comes from the verb sızlamak.

Sızlamak is used for a kind of pain that is:

• lingering
• stinging
• throbbing
• nagging

So it is a good verb for pain from a wound, sore spot, or irritated body part.

It is built like this:

• dictionary form: sızlamak
• verb stem: sızla-
• present continuous suffix: -ıyor
• result: sızlıyor

What happens is:

1. The stem ends in a vowel: sızla-
2. Before -yor, that final stem vowel drops
3. So sızla- becomes sızl-
4. Then the suffix is added: sızl + ıyor = sızlıyor

The vowel in -ıyor follows vowel harmony. Because the last vowel of the stem is a, the suffix uses ı.

It is the present continuous form, made with -yor.

But in English, sentences like this are often translated with the simple present:

• Yara hâlâ sızlıyor. = The wound still hurts.

So even though Turkish uses the -yor form, English may use either:

• is still throbbing
• still hurts

depending on what sounds most natural.

Turkish usually does not need subject pronouns when the subject is already clear.

Here, yara is the subject, so there is no need to add anything else.

English needs it in many sentences, but Turkish often does not.

Because yara is the subject of the sentence.

Subjects normally appear in the basic dictionary form, with no special ending.

Here:

• yara = subject
• sızlıyor = verb

If wound were the object instead, you might see something like yarayı with the accusative ending. But that is not the case here.

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

Yara hâlâ sızlıyor. is a very natural order:

• subject + adverb + verb

You may also hear other orders for emphasis, but this version is straightforward and standard for learners.

A good rule of thumb: in simple statements, the verb often comes last.

This is a nuance question, and it matters.

• sızlamak suggests a smarting, throbbing, stinging, or nagging pain
• ağrımak is more general: to ache / hurt
• acımak can mean to hurt / sting, often with a slightly different feel depending on context

So Yara hâlâ sızlıyor is more specific than a plain The wound hurts. It suggests the wound is continuing to give that unpleasant, persistent kind of pain.

The tricky part is ı, because English does not have an exact equivalent.

For ı:

• keep your lips unrounded
• make a short vowel sound from the back of the mouth
• it is not ee, oo, or regular English i

A rough learner-friendly approximation:

• sızlıyor ≈ suhz-luh-yor
• yara ≈ ya-ra
• hâlâ ≈ haa-laa

Those are only approximations, but they help at first.

Because every sentence-initial word is capitalized in Turkish, just like in English.

So at the start of a sentence:

• Yara could simply be the common noun yara written with a capital letter because it is first

In dictionary form, it is yara = wound. Context tells you it is not being used as a proper name here.