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Questions & Answers about Çocuklar bahçede gürültü yapıyor.
Since Çocuklar is plural, why doesn't the verb end in -lar (yapıyorlar)?
In Turkish, if a human subject already has a plural ending like -lar, you do not have to make the verb plural too. Saying yapıyor is perfectly natural and very common, though yapıyorlar would not be wrong.
Why do we use the verb yapıyor for making noise?
You pair the noun gürültü (noise) with the helper verb yapmak (to make or to do). Together, gürültü yapmak is the standard way to say "to make noise" in Turkish.
Why is it bahçede instead of bahçeda?
The suffix for "in", "on", or "at" is either -de or -da. Because the last vowel in bahçe (garden) is an "e", it takes the front-vowel version -de to follow vowel harmony rules, giving us bahçede (in the garden).
Why isn't the object gürültü written with a direct object ending (like gürültüyü)?
We only use the direct object ending (the accusative case) for specific things, like "the noise". Since the children are just making general noise, gürültü stays in its plain dictionary form without any extra suffixes.