Learn Turkish: Balayı için yapacağımız hazırlıklar bitmiyor! - The preparations we will make for the honeymoon are never-ending!

This is the future object relative participle you are learning in this lesson. We take the verb root yap (make/do), add the future suffix -acak, and then add the possessive ending for "our", which is -ımız. Because -ımız starts with a vowel, the k in -acak softens to a ğ. So, yapacağımız literally acts as "our future-making", which translates to "that we will make" or "which we will make".

Why is there an -ı at the end of balayı (honeymoon)?

Balayı is a compound noun made of two separate words: bal (honey) and ay (moon/month). In Turkish, when you put two nouns together to make a new concept, the second word usually needs a possessive suffix. Here, the -ı is that third-person possessive suffix linking the two words together.

What does the suffix -lık do in the word hazırlıklar?

The root word is the adjective hazır, which means "ready". The suffix -lık is a very common ending used to turn adjectives or nouns into abstract nouns, similar to "-ness" or "-tion" in English. So hazırlık becomes "preparation" (literally "readiness"), and the -lar makes it plural.

Why is the verb bitmiyor in the present continuous tense if the English says "never-ending"?