Learn Turkish: Hızlı tüketim toplumunda, sade yaşamak bazen çok zordur. - In a fast consumption society, living simply is sometimes very difficult.

In Turkish, the infinitive -mAk form acts as a verbal noun. It can translate to either "to live" or "living" depending on what sounds best in English. Here, sade yaşamak acts as the subject of the sentence, so translating it as "living simply" (a gerund) feels most natural, even though "to live simply" would also be grammatically correct.

Why is there an 'n' before the locative suffix -da in toplumunda?

The phrase tüketim toplumu (consumption society) is a noun compound, so toplum takes the possessive suffix -u. Whenever you add a case marker (like the locative -da for "in") to a word ending in a third-person possessive suffix, you must use the buffer letter -n- to connect them.

Is sade acting as an adjective or an adverb in this sentence?

It is acting as an adverb here. While sade is commonly used as an adjective (like sade kahve for plain coffee), it can also modify verbs to describe how something is done. In this sentence, it modifies yaşamak to mean living "simply" or "in a plain way."

What is the purpose of the -dur suffix at the end of zordur?