Breakdown of Eylül ve ekim aylarında çok yağmur yağıyor.
ve
and
çok
a lot of / many
yağmur
rain
yağmak
to rain / to snow
Questions & Answers about Eylül ve ekim aylarında çok yağmur yağıyor.
Why is it aylarında instead of just adding -de to the months (like ekimde)?
You can actually say Eylül ve ekimde (in September and October). However, Turkish often uses the phrase "in the months of..." when talking about them generally. Here is how aylarında breaks down: ay (month) + -lar (plural) + -ı (compound marker linking it to the month names) + -n- (buffer letter) + -da (in).
Why isn't the month ekim capitalized here?
In Turkish, months and days of the week are written with lowercase letters unless they are part of a specific exact date (like 5 Ekim). Here, we are talking about October in general, so it stays lowercase. (Eylül is only capitalized because it is the first word of the sentence!)
Why use both yağmur and yağıyor? Doesn't the verb already mean it's raining?
The verb yağmak doesn't mean "to rain" by itself—it means "to fall from the sky" as precipitation. To say "it is raining," Turkish literally says "rain is falling" (yağmur yağıyor). You use this exact same verb for snow: kar yağıyor (it is snowing).
The English translation is "It rains", but isn't -ıyor the present continuous tense ("It is raining")?