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Questions & Answers about Telefonun ekranı küçük.
Why is it telefonun and not just telefon?
Because this sentence uses a definite noun compound to show ownership. We add the genitive suffix -un to telefon to make it mean the phone's. This marks the phone as the owner.
What is the -ı at the end of ekranı?
In a Turkish possessive phrase, the owned item also gets a suffix. The -ı is the third-person possessive suffix. So literally, telefonun ekranı translates to the phone's its-screen.
Why does telefon get -un but ekran gets -ı?
Both suffixes follow 4-way vowel harmony rules. The last vowel in telefon is o, which pairs with u, making the genitive suffix -un. The last vowel in ekran is a, which pairs with ı, making the possessive suffix -ı.
Where is the word for is in this sentence?
Turkish does not have a separate word for is. For the third person (it is), you can simply put the adjective at the end of the sentence. Here, küçük does the job of is small all by itself.