Learn Turkish: Müze ziyareti ne zaman? - When is the museum visit?

In Turkish, question words usually sit in the same spot where the answer would go, which is often right before the verb. Since this sentence doesn't have an action verb (it is a simple "is" sentence), the question word acts as the core information and naturally sits at the end.

Why does ziyaret (visit) have an -i at the end?

This forms a noun compound. In English, we just place two nouns side by side to make "museum visit". In Turkish, when linking two nouns to show that one belongs to a category of the other, the second noun gets a possessive suffix to connect them. So, müze (museum) plus ziyaret (visit) becomes müze ziyareti.

Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?

There isn't one! Turkish often leaves out the "is" ending (like -dir) in simple, everyday statements and questions about the present. Saying Müze ziyareti ne zaman? perfectly means "When is the museum visit?" without needing an extra word for "is".

Does ne zaman literally translate to "when"?

Literally, ne means "what" and zaman means "time". So it translates directly to "what time". However, it is the standard Turkish word for "when" and can be used to ask about days, months, years, or general time periods.