Learn Turkish: Sarı kedi uyuyor. - The yellow cat is sleeping.

In Turkish, adjectives always go right before the noun they describe, exactly like they do in English! So sarı (yellow) comes just before kedi (cat).

Does the adjective sarı need to change if we talk about more than one cat?

Nope! Turkish adjectives never change their spelling or endings, regardless of whether the noun is plural or singular. Even if it were yellow cats (sarı kediler), the word sarı stays exactly the same.

Where is the word for 'the' in this sentence?

Turkish does not have a separate word for 'the'. The phrase sarı kedi can mean 'a yellow cat' or 'the yellow cat' depending on the context. Since we are talking about a specific cat doing an action right now, it translates best as 'the yellow cat'.

How do we get 'is sleeping' from the single word uyuyor?

The root of the verb is uyu-, which means to sleep. The -yor suffix is the present continuous tense, working just like the English '-ing'. Because Turkish verbs contain the subject pronoun inside them (here it implies 'it'), uyuyor on its own means 'is sleeping' or 'it is sleeping'.