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Questions & Answers about Gömlek çok dar.
Why does çok mean 'very' here instead of 'a lot'?
When çok is placed right before an adjective like dar (tight), it means 'very' to describe the degree of that adjective. If you placed it before a noun, like çok gömlek, it would mean 'many shirts' or 'a lot of shirts'.
Where is the word for 'is' in this sentence?
Turkish does not have a separate word for 'is' when talking about 'it' (the shirt) in simple present descriptions. By simply placing the subject (gömlek) and the description (çok dar) together, the 'is' is automatically understood.
How do we know it means 'The shirt' if there is no word for 'the'?
Turkish does not have a definite article like the English word 'the'. A plain noun like gömlek standing at the beginning of a sentence as the subject is usually specific, so we naturally translate it as 'The shirt'.