Learn Turkish: Alışveriş merkezindeki kırtasiye neresi? - Where is the stationery store in the shopping mall?

While nerede means "at what location," neresi acts as a noun meaning "what place." When you ask ... neresi?, you are literally asking "What place is the stationery store?" You use neresi when identifying a specific place or asking for its exact identity or name within the mall, rather than just asking for its general coordinates.

Can you break down the suffixes in merkezindeki?

It starts with alışveriş merkezi (shopping center), a noun compound ending in the possessive suffix -i. Next is the buffer letter -n-, followed by the locative case -de (in/at), making merkezinde (in the center). Finally, the suffix -ki attaches to mean "the one which is in," giving us merkezindeki (the one in the shopping mall).

Doesn't kırtasiye just mean "stationery" like pens and paper? How do we know it means the store here?

In Turkish, words for certain goods or equipment are commonly used to refer to the shop itself. Just like fırın means "oven" but also "bakery," kırtasiye is used in everyday language to mean the "stationery store." You don't need to add a word like dükkan (shop).

How does the word order work here? Is neresi the subject?