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Şu on sekiz araba ucuz değil.

Şu on sekiz araba ucuz değil.
Those eighteen cars are not cheap.
From Lesson 11:Numbers 11 to 20 (on bir, on iki)·Turkish

Breakdown of Şu on sekiz araba ucuz değil.

araba
car
şu
that (pointed out)
değil
not
ucuz
cheap
on sekiz
eighteen

Questions & Answers about Şu on sekiz araba ucuz değil.

How do we form numbers like eighteen in Turkish?
You simply put the ten word and the unit word together, separated by a space. In this sentence, on means ten and sekiz means eight, so on sekiz is eighteen.
Since there are eighteen cars, why isn't araba pluralized to arabalar?
In Turkish, whenever you use a number before a noun to say how many there are, the noun must always stay in its singular form. So it is always on sekiz araba, never on sekiz arabalar.
Why is it Şu instead of Şunlar if it translates to those?
When a pointing word like şu (that/those) is used to describe a noun right next to it, it never takes a plural ending in Turkish. You just use the singular şu. Also, şu specifically points to things that are a little further away but still in sight.
Why do we use değil here to say not?
The word değil is a separate word used to make sentences without a main action verb negative. Since this sentence describes what the cars are not (they are not cheap), we just put değil right after the adjective ucuzucuz.

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