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Questions & Answers about Evde biri var.
Why does it say evde instead of just ev?
The word ev means house. Adding the suffix -de changes it to mean "in the house". This suffix shows location, and depending on the word, it can mean "in", "at", or "on".
I learned that bir means one. What does the -i do in biri?
Why is var at the very end of the sentence?
The word var means "there is" or "exists". In Turkish, the existence word usually goes at the end of the sentence. The standard order is to put the location first (evde), then the person or thing that exists (biri), and finally var.
How do we know it means "in the house" instead of "in a house"?
Turkish does not have a separate word for "the". You usually understand it from context. If you specifically wanted to say "in a house", you would add bir before the location and say bir evde.