Questions & Answers about Kadının bir arabası var.
Why does this sentence use the genitive suffix (-ın) on kadın to say "has"?
Turkish doesn't have a direct verb for "to have". Instead, you express possession by saying that someone's object exists. Literally, this sentence translates to "The woman's (kadının) a car of hers (arabası) exists (var)."
Why is the ending -sı added to araba?
In a Turkish "to have" sentence, the object being owned must take a possessive suffix. Araba means "car", and adding -sı makes it "her car". Because araba ends in a vowel, the buffer letter s is used to separate it from the suffix vowel ı.
Why is the genitive suffix on kadın just -ın instead of -nın?
The genitive suffix uses the buffer letter n (making it -nın, -nin, etc.) only when attaching to a word that ends in a vowel. Because kadın ends in a consonant (n), it doesn't need a buffer letter, so we just add -ın.
What happens if I put bir at the beginning of the sentence?
The word bir (a/one) modifies the word right after it. In this sentence, it sits before arabası, meaning "a car". If you moved it to the front (Bir kadının arabası var), it would change the meaning to "A woman has the car" instead of "The woman has a car."