Learn Turkish: Güneye bakan kiralık bir daire arıyorum. - I am looking for an apartment for rent that faces south.

Bakan comes from the verb bakmak (to look / to face). By adding the subject relative participle -an, it turns the verb into a describing word meaning "who looks" or "that faces". Here, it acts like an adjective modifying the apartment: an apartment "that faces".

Why is it Güneye with an -e on the end instead of just Güney?

The verb bakmak requires the dative case (-a or -e) for the object or direction being looked at. Since the apartment is facing towards the south (güney), we add -e to get güneye.

I learned that bakmak means "to look". Can it also describe buildings?

Yes! In Turkish, bakmak is commonly used for buildings, rooms, or windows to mean "to face" or "to have a view of". Just like a person looks at a landscape, an apartment can "look" to the south.

How is the word kiralık formed?

The base word is kira, which means "rent". The suffix -lık creates an adjective showing the purpose of a noun. So, kiralık translates to "for rent" or "rental".