Questions & Answers about Avukatın sekreteri çok yorgun.
Why does avukat have the -ın ending here?
The -ın ending is the genitive case suffix, which works like the English "'s". It shows that the lawyer is the "owner" in the relationship. So, avukatın translates to "the lawyer's".
If avukatın already means "lawyer's", why is there an -i at the end of sekreteri?
Why did avukat take an -ın ending, but sekreter took an -i ending?
Both suffixes follow 4-way vowel harmony. The last vowel in avukat is "a", so it takes the undotted "ı" (-ın). The last vowel in sekreter is "e", so it takes the dotted "i" (-i).
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
There isn't one! In Turkish, the "to be" verb for the third person (he/she/it is) is often completely invisible. By putting the subject (avukatın sekreteri) and the description (çok yorgun) side by side, the "is" is understood automatically.