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Questions & Answers about Salonunda uyuyor.
Why is there an -n- in the middle of salonunda?
This is the buffer letter n. The word is made up of salon (living room) + -u (his/her) + -da (in). In Turkish, whenever you add a case suffix (like the locative -da) right after a third-person possessive suffix (like -u), you must use the buffer letter n between them. So it becomes salon-u-n-da.
Could salonunda also mean "in your living room"?
Yes, it absolutely can! If it meant "in your living room", the breakdown would be salon (living room) + -un (your) + -da (in). Because salonunda looks exactly the same for both "his/her" and "your", you have to rely on context or look for a pronoun like onun (his/her) or senin (your) earlier in the conversation to tell the difference.
Where is the word for "he" in this sentence?
The pronoun o (he/she/it) was dropped because it is optional. In Turkish, the subject is built into the verb. The verb uyuyor has no personal ending after the -yor suffix, which automatically tells us the subject is "he", "she", or "it".
Why isn't there a helping vowel before the -yor suffix in uyuyor?
The verb root is uyu- (to sleep). Because the root already ends in a vowel, we do not need to add a 4-way helping vowel before the -yor (present continuous) suffix. We just attach it directly to get uyuyor.