Word
Sen bu pansiyonda kalacaksın.
Meaning
You will stay at this guesthouse.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Sen bu pansiyonda kalacaksın.
bu
this
sen
you
kalmak
to stay / to be left / to remain (in a state)
pansiyon
guesthouse
Questions & Answers about Sen bu pansiyonda kalacaksın.
How is the future tense built in kalacaksın?
The verb root is kal- (to stay). Because it ends in a consonant, we don't need the buffer letter y that is used for vowel-ending roots. We just add the future tense suffix -acak, followed by the personal ending for 'you' (singular), which is -sın. So it comes together as kal + acak + sın.
Why is the future suffix -acak and not -ecek here?
The suffix follows 2-way vowel harmony. The only vowel in the root kal- is a, which is a back vowel. Therefore, the suffix takes the a form (-acak). If the root had a front vowel like e or i (like gel-), it would take the e form (geleceksin).
Why does the sentence use pansiyonda instead of pansiyona?
The suffix -da means 'in' or 'at' (the locative case). While you might travel to a guesthouse, the Turkish verb kalmak (to stay) describes being static in a location, not moving towards it. Therefore, you stay 'at' the guesthouse (pansiyonda) rather than 'to' it (pansiyona).
What kind of accommodation is a pansiyon?