Word
Şu evde çok kedi var.
Meaning
There are many cats in that house.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Şu evde çok kedi var.
Why is "in the house" written as evde and not evda?
The locative suffix (meaning in, on, or at) follows 2-way vowel harmony. Because the only vowel in ev (house) is an 'e' (a front vowel), the suffix becomes -de. If the word had a back vowel like 'a' or 'o', it would take -da instead.
If there are many cats, why isn't the word pluralized as kediler?
In Turkish, you do not use the plural suffix (-ler or -lar) when you already have a number or a quantity word. Because the sentence uses çok (many), kedi must stay in its singular form. You are literally saying "many cat"!
Why use şu instead of o for "that"?
Turkish has three words for pointing: bu (this), şu (that, nearby or being pointed at), and o (that, further away). You use şu when you are actively directing someone's attention to something, like pointing your finger at "that house".
How do we say "there are" in this sentence?
The word var means "there is" or "there are" (literally it means "existent"). In Turkish, verbs and existence words always go at the very end of the sentence. So the structure is "That house-in many cat there-are" (Şu evde çok kedi var).