Questions & Answers about Ben mühendisim, bu yeni bir ev.
Why does mühendis end with -im here?
The -im suffix is the present tense 'to be' ending for 'I' (meaning 'I am'). We use -im instead of -um or -üm because of 4-way vowel harmony: the last vowel in mühendis is i, so the suffix must also use an i.
If -im already means 'I am', do I still have to use Ben at the start of the sentence?
Not necessarily! In Turkish, the ending -im already tells us who is speaking. You can just say Mühendisim to mean 'I am an engineer.' Including Ben just adds a little extra emphasis, like saying 'I am an engineer'.
Why is the word order yeni bir ev instead of bir yeni ev?
In English we say 'a new house', but in Turkish, descriptive adjectives like yeni (new) almost always come before the word bir (a/an). The pattern is usually [Adjective] + bir + [Noun].
Where is the word for 'is' in bu yeni bir ev?
Unlike 'I am' which gets the -im suffix, the third person ('is') often doesn't need a suffix at all in everyday Turkish. Simply saying bu yeni bir ev (literally 'this new a house') is completely fine and correct for 'this is a new house'.