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Questions & Answers about Havaalanına gidiyoruz.
How does this sentence answer the question nereye (where to)?
To show direction toward a place, Turkish uses the direction suffix -a or -e. Because we are answering the question nereye, we add the suffix -a to the word for airport to mean "to the airport".
Why is there an n before the -a in havaalanına?
The word for airport is havaalanı. Because it ends in a vowel that acts as a compound word marker (the -ı), we have to use the buffer letter -n- before adding the direction suffix -a. If it were a regular word ending in a vowel, we would use the buffer letter -y- instead.
The dictionary says the verb "to go" is gitmek. Why is it spelled with a d in gidiyoruz?
When the verb root git (go) takes a suffix that starts with a vowel, like the present continuous tense -iyor, the hard t softens into a d. This is a common pronunciation rule that makes the word flow better!
What words make up the compound noun havaalanı?