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?
It is made from hava (air) and alan (area or field). When putting two nouns together like this in Turkish, we add a vowel suffix to the second word to link them, which gives us the -ı at the end.
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