Questions & Answers about Tavuk çorbası çok sıcak, yavaş için.
Why is it çorbası and not just çorba?
This is an indefinite noun compound. In Turkish, when you combine two nouns to make a new concept like 'chicken soup', the first noun stays bare (tavuk) and the second one gets a possessive suffix. Since çorba ends in a vowel, it takes the buffer -s- followed by the 3rd person suffix -ı, becoming çorbası.
Doesn't için usually mean 'for'? Why does it mean 'drink' here?
You are right that için is a very common word meaning 'for'. However, here it is the verb içmek (to drink). When you drop the -mek, you get the root iç. Adding -in makes it a formal or plural command: 'drink!'. It just happens to look exactly like the word for 'for'.
Where is the word for 'is' in the first half of the sentence?
In Turkish, there is no separate word for 'is'. For the third person (he, she, it) in the present tense, you can just put the subject (tavuk çorbası) and the adjective (çok sıcak) together. Tavuk çorbası çok sıcak naturally means 'The chicken soup is very hot.'
The translation says 'drink slowly', but isn't yavaş just the adjective 'slow'?