Questions & Answers about Ben her sabah horozun sesiyle uyanıyordum.
Why does the verb uyanıyordum have two tense endings?
The word uyanıyordum combines the present continuous suffix -ıyor and the past suffix -du. This creates the past continuous tense. Turkish uses this tense for actions that were happening in the past, or for past habits, which is why it translates to "I used to wake up" here.
What makes up the phrase horozun sesi?
This is a possessive noun phrase. horoz (rooster) gets the "owner" suffix -un to mean "rooster's". Then ses (sound) gets the "owned" suffix -i to mean "its sound". Together, horozun sesi means "the rooster's sound".
The English translation says "to the sound", but how is that written in Turkish?
The word sesiyle ends with -yle, which is the attached form of the word ile, meaning "with". A literal translation would be "I used to wake up with the sound of the rooster". While English speakers wake up "to" a sound, Turkish speakers wake up "with" it!
Why is there an extra letter y in sesiyle?
When attaching the ile suffix (which shrinks to -la or -le) to a word that ends in a vowel, you must insert a buffer -y- to keep the vowels apart. Because sesi ends in the vowel i, adding -le creates sesiyle.