Learn Turkish: Adam hep çay içiyor. - The man is always drinking tea.

Turkish doesn't have a direct translation for the English word "the". The word adam can mean "a man" or "the man" depending on the context. Since it is the subject of the sentence, it is naturally understood as "The man".

Why is the word for tea just çay and not çayı?

Because he is drinking tea in general, not one specific cup of tea. When an object is general, it stays in its basic dictionary form (çay). If he were drinking a specific tea like "the tea", it would need the specific object ending and become çayı.

The verb içiyor uses the -iyor ending for things happening right now. Why is it used with hep (always)?

While the -iyor tense is used for actions happening right now, Turkish also uses it for regular habits and routines. Using hep with the -iyor ending is a very common way to say that someone "always does" something, similar to the simple present tense in English.

What is the word order happening in this sentence?

The sentence follows standard Turkish word order. It starts with the Subject (Adam), followed by the frequency adverb (hep), then the Object (çay), and always ends with the Verb (içiyor).