Word
Belki başka bir yerde.
Meaning
Maybe it is somewhere else.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Belki başka bir yerde.
bir
a / an
yer
place / space / room (unoccupied space, capacity)
başka
other / another / else
belki
maybe / perhaps
Questions & Answers about Belki başka bir yerde.
How do we form "somewhere else" in Turkish using the words in this sentence?
The core phrase is bir yer, which literally means "a place" but acts as the indefinite pronoun "somewhere". To make it "somewhere else", you add the adjective başka (other/else) to the front, giving you başka bir yer (literally "another place").
Why is the word order başka bir yerde instead of bir başka yerde?
In Turkish, descriptive adjectives usually come before the indefinite article bir. So you put başka (other) before bir yer (a place). While you might sometimes hear bir başka, it usually has a more dramatic meaning like "a completely different", so stick to başka bir for everyday speech.
Why is there a -de attached to yer?
Where is the "it is" part of the sentence?