Breakdown of Biz kasım ve aralık aylarında çok çalışıyoruz.
biz
we
ve
and
çok
a lot of / many
çalışmak
to work / to study
Questions & Answers about Biz kasım ve aralık aylarında çok çalışıyoruz.
Why do we need the word aylarında here? Can't we just say kasım ve aralıkta?
You can absolutely say kasımda ve aralıkta! However, it is very common and natural in Turkish to say 'in the months of...' when talking about months generally. That is why aylarında is used here.
What do all the suffixes in the word aylarında mean?
Let's break it down: ay (month) + -lar (plural, 'months') + -ı (a suffix that links 'months' to the names November and December) + -n- (a buffer letter) + -da (meaning 'in'). Altogether, it means 'in the months of'.
Why aren't the months kasım and aralık capitalized?
In Turkish, months and days of the week are only capitalized if they include a specific number, like a date (15 Kasım). Since we are just talking about the months in general here, they start with lowercase letters.
The English translation is 'we work', but doesn't çalışıyoruz mean 'we are working'?
Yes, it literally means 'we are working'. But in Turkish, the present continuous tense (-ıyor) is very often used to talk about general habits and routines, just like the simple present tense ('we work') in English.