Questions & Answers about Tatlı menüsü nerede?
Why is it menüsü and not just menü?
This is an indefinite noun compound, which is how Turkish puts two nouns together to make a new concept like "dessert menu". The first word (tatlı) stays bare, but the second word gets a possessive suffix. It is a bit like saying "dessert its-menu".
Where does the -sü ending on menüsü come from?
The third-person possessive suffix (used for the second word in these compounds) is -i, -ı, -u, or -ü depending on 4-way vowel harmony. Because menü already ends in a vowel (ü), we must add the buffer consonant s to keep the vowels apart, resulting in -sü.
I thought tatlı was an adjective meaning "sweet". Can it be a noun?
Yes! While tatlı is very commonly used as an adjective meaning "sweet", it is also a noun meaning "dessert". Here, it acts as the first noun in our noun compound.
Why do we use nerede instead of just nere to ask "where"?
Nerede includes the locative suffix -de, which means "in", "on", or "at". When asking for the current location of an object, Turkish literally asks "at where", so you must use nerede.
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