Word
Alarmım saat altı buçuk.
Meaning
My alarm is at half past six.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Alarmım saat altı buçuk.
Why do we use buçuk for 'half' instead of yarım?
In Turkish, buçuk is used specifically when adding 'and a half' to a whole number, like in altı buçuk (six and a half). You use yarım when you just mean a standalone half of something, like half an apple.
The translation says 'at half past six,' so why isn't there a suffix like -ta for 'at'?
In English we say 'at 6:30,' but in Turkish you can just say 'My alarm is 6:30' when the time itself is the main point of the sentence. If you were describing an action happening at that time, like 'I wake up at 6:30,' then you would add the suffix: altı buçukta.
Why is the word saat placed before the number altı?
When pointing to a specific time on the clock, saat comes before the number. If you reverse the order and say altı saat, it changes the meaning to a duration of 'six hours'.
How does the word alarm become alarmım?
To say 'my alarm,' we add the possessive suffix for 'my'. Since alarm ends in a consonant and its last vowel is an 'a', we follow the vowel harmony rule and add -ım.