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Öğrenci kırmızı bir elma yiyor.

Öğrenci kırmızı bir elma yiyor.
The student is eating a red apple.
From Lesson 48:Adjectives modifying nouns·Turkish

Breakdown of Öğrenci kırmızı bir elma yiyor.

bir
a / an
öğrenci
student
elma
apple
yemek
to eat
kırmızı
red

Questions & Answers about Öğrenci kırmızı bir elma yiyor.

Why is it kırmızı bir elma instead of bir kırmızı elma?
In Turkish, when you have both an adjective (like kırmızı) and the word bir (a/an) describing a noun, the adjective usually comes first. The standard order is Adjective + bir + Noun.
Does the adjective kırmızı need any special endings to match the noun?
No! Unlike in some other languages, Turkish adjectives do not change. They never take plural endings or case markers to match the noun they describe. They just sit right before the noun in their plain dictionary form.
The apple is the object being eaten. Why isn't it written as elmayı?
You only use the specific direct object ending (the accusative case) when you are talking about a specific object, like 'the red apple'. Because the student is eating an unspecified apple (bir elma), it stays in its plain form without a case suffix.
The dictionary form of 'to eat' is yemek. Why does it change to yiyor here?
When a verb root ends in a wide vowel like e or a, and you add the present continuous ending -yor, that final vowel changes into a narrow vowel (i, ı, u, or ü). Here, the e in the root ye- narrows to an i, making the word yiyor.

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