Questions & Answers about Gölün kenarında çay içiyorum.
Because Turkish is showing a relationship like the edge of the lake.
Here, gölün is göl + -ün:
- göl = lake
- -ün = the genitive ending, roughly like of the or 's
So gölün kenarı literally means the lake's edge or the edge of the lake.
The form -ün appears because of vowel harmony. After ö, the genitive suffix becomes -ün.
Kenarında can be broken down like this:
- kenar = edge, side
- -ı = its / third-person possessive
- -n- = a linking consonant
- -da = in / on / at
So:
kenar-ı-n-da
= at its edge
= at the edge of it
Since it refers back to the lake, gölün kenarında means at the lake's edge or by the lake.