Breakdown of Turist yarın otele varacak.
otel
hotel
yarın
tomorrow
turist
tourist
varmak
to arrive (at a destination)
Questions & Answers about Turist yarın otele varacak.
Wait, doesn't var mean 'there is'? How can it be a verb here?
You have a good eye! Turkish has two completely different words spelled var. One is the word meaning 'there is' or 'exists' which you learned early on. The other is the verb root varmak, which means 'to arrive' or 'to reach'. In this sentence, we are using the verb varmak.
How does the future tense suffix attach to the verb root var in this sentence?
The verb root var ends in a consonant (the letter r), so we do not need the buffer letter y that we normally use for verbs ending in a vowel. Next, we look at vowel harmony. The only vowel in var is a, so we add the matching suffix -acak to get varacak. Because the subject is the third person (the tourist), we don't add any personal suffix at the very end.
The translation says 'arrive at the hotel.' Why is it otele instead of otelde?
In English, we usually say we arrive 'at' a place, which might make you want to use the locative suffix -de (at/in/on). However, in Turkish, the verb varmak (to arrive) requires the dative suffix, which shows direction ('to'). So you take otel and add -e to get otele, which functions exactly like 'arrive to the hotel'.
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