Learn Turkish: Şehir modern yapılarla gelişiyor. - The city is developing with modern structures.

In Turkish, the word for 'with' is ile. While you can write it separately (like yapılar ile), it is much more common to attach it directly to the previous word as a suffix. When attached, it drops the 'i' and follows A-type vowel harmony, becoming -la or -le. Since the last vowel in yapılar is 'a', it takes -la to become yapılarla.

Does the word 'yapı' (structure) come from the verb 'yapmak' (to do/make)?

Yes! You can form many nouns from verbs in Turkish by adding suffixes like -ı, -i, -u, or -ü. Here, the verb root yap- (to make/build) takes the -ı suffix to become the noun yapı, meaning 'something made' or 'structure'.

The verb 'gelişiyor' looks like it has the root 'gel-' (to come). Are they related?

Historically, yes, they are related through the reciprocal suffix -iş. However, today gelişmek is its own distinct verb meaning 'to develop,' 'to mature,' or 'to progress.' At the A2 level, it is easiest to treat gelişmek as a completely separate vocabulary word from gelmek.

Could we use 'binalarla' instead of 'yapılarla' here?