Yanık geceleri sızlıyor.

the night

Breakdown of Yanık geceleri sızlıyor.

• yanık: a burn injury
• sızlamak: to ache or throb

Questions & Answers about Yanık geceleri sızlıyor.

What is yanık here — an adjective meaning burnt, or a noun meaning burn?

Here it works as a noun: yanık = a burn / a burn wound.

Even though yanık can also be an adjective meaning burnt / scorched, in this sentence it is the thing doing the action:

• Yanık = the burn
• sızlıyor = aches / stings / throbs

So the sentence is understood as The burn aches at night or The burn stings at night.

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Why is it geceleri and not just gece?

Geceleri is a common time expression meaning at night, nights, or during the nights in a habitual/repeated sense.

It is built from:

• gece = night
• -ler = plural
• -i = part of a fixed adverbial form often used with time words

So geceleri does not usually mean a literal object like the nights here. It functions adverbially:

• geceleri sızlıyor = it aches at night / nights

This pattern is very common in Turkish:

• akşamları = in the evenings
• sabahları = in the mornings
• yazları = in the summers

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