Breakdown of Her yıl okul eylül ayında başlıyor.
okul
school
başlamak
to begin, to start
her
every
yıl
year
ay
month
eylül
September
Questions & Answers about Her yıl okul eylül ayında başlıyor.
Why do we say eylül ayında instead of just eylülde?
In Turkish, it is very common to add the word for month (ay) after the specific month's name. Eylül ayında literally means in the month of September. You can also just say eylülde (in September), but using ayında is a very natural phrasing you will hear often.
How does the word ayında break down?
It is made of ay (month) plus ı (a suffix linking it to September) plus n (a buffer letter) plus da (the location suffix). Together, eylül ayı means month of September, and adding -nda makes it in the month of September.
Why isn't eylül capitalized?
In Turkish, months and days of the week are only capitalized when they are part of a specific, exact date with a number (for example, 15 Eylül). Because this sentence just mentions September in a general way, it is written with a lowercase letter.
The English translation uses the simple present tense, but doesn't başlıyor mean is starting?
Yes, the -yor suffix creates the present continuous tense. However, Turkish frequently uses this tense for general facts, routines, or things that happen regularly (like her yıl, meaning every year). In English, we naturally translate this routine action to the simple present tense.
The verb for to start is başlamak, so why is it başlıyor instead of başlayor?
When a verb root ends in the vowels a or e (like the root başla-), that vowel has to narrow to ı, i, u, or ü before you can add the -yor suffix. Here, the a drops and changes to an ı, giving us başlıyor.
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