Breakdown of Asansör bu bina için çok önemli.
bu
this
çok
very
bina
building
önemli
important
için
for
asansör
elevator
Questions & Answers about Asansör bu bina için çok önemli.
Why does için come after bu bina?
In English, "for" is a preposition and comes before the noun ("for this building"). In Turkish, için is a postposition, which means it must come after the noun or noun phrase it applies to, creating bu bina için.
Does the word bina (building) need any special case ending before için?
No. When için is used with regular nouns like bina or noun phrases like bu bina, the noun stays in its standard, unchanged form. Just remember that if you use personal pronouns instead (like "I" or "this one"), they do need the genitive case ending, as in benim için (for me) or bunun için (for this).
Where is the verb "is" in this sentence?
Turkish doesn't use a separate verb word for "to be" (am/is/are). Instead, you just end the sentence with your noun or adjective. Here, ending with çok önemli naturally means "is very important." You could add the factual suffix -dir to make it önemlidir, but this is optional and frequently left out in everyday sentences.
Since we are learning ordinal numbers, how would I change this to say "for the first building"?
You would simply replace the word bu (this) with the ordinal number. The number one is bir, and adding the -(I)ncI suffix makes it birinci (first). So, "The elevator is very important for the first building" would be Asansör birinci bina için çok önemli.
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