Breakdown of Ekrana önemli bir bildirim gelmek üzere.
bir
a / an
gelmek
to come
ekran
screen
önemli
important
üzere
about to / on the verge of
bildirim
notification
Questions & Answers about Ekrana önemli bir bildirim gelmek üzere.
Why is gelmek in its infinitive form instead of being conjugated?
To express that something is "about to" happen, Turkish uses the full infinitive verb (ending in -mak or -mek) followed by üzere. You do not conjugate the main verb (gelmek) here. If you needed to show who is doing the action or change the tense, those endings would attach to üzere (or the "to be" verb following it).
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
Since "an important notification" is a third-person singular subject ("it"), the sentence requires the "to be" suffix -dir. However, in everyday Turkish, this third-person suffix is very often dropped. You could write gelmek üzeredir, but leaving it simply as gelmek üzere is perfectly natural and grammatically correct.
Why does the sentence use ekrana instead of just ekran?
Ekran means "screen", and the -a suffix is the dative case (meaning "to" or "towards"). Motion verbs like gelmek (to come) require their destination to take this dative ending, so the notification is literally coming to the screen.
Why is the word order önemli bir bildirim and not bir önemli bildirim?
How is the word bildirim (notification) formed?
It builds up from a basic verb you already know: bilmek (to know). Adding the causative suffix gives us bildirmek (to make known / to inform). Finally, adding the noun-forming suffix -im turns the action into the physical or digital thing itself: bildirim (a piece of information / a notification).
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