Word
Yeni arabalar çok pahalı.
Meaning
New cars are very expensive.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Yeni arabalar çok pahalı.
How would I make this sentence negative to say "New cars are not very expensive"?
You add the negative word değil at the very end. The negative sentence is Yeni arabalar çok pahalı değil. In Turkish, değil is used to say "is not" or "are not" for nouns and adjectives, and it always comes after the word it is negating.
Why is there no plural ending on yeni? Shouldn't it match arabalar?
In Turkish, adjectives like yeni (new) never take a plural ending when they are describing a noun. You just add the plural -lar or -ler to the noun itself, just like in English.
Where is the word for "are" in Yeni arabalar çok pahalı?
There isn't one! In Turkish, you often don't need a specific word for "am", "is", or "are" in basic descriptive sentences. Putting the subject (yeni arabalar) and the description (çok pahalı) together is enough.
Why does araba take the -lar plural ending instead of -ler?
This is a great time to review vowel harmony. The last vowel in araba is "a". Because "a" is a back vowel (along with ı, o, u), it takes the matching back plural ending -lar.