Questions & Answers about Banka sağda, market solda.
Where is the word for 'is' in this sentence?
In Turkish, you often do not need a word for 'is' or 'are' in simple descriptions. Putting the subject and its location together, like Banka sağda, is completely sufficient to mean 'The bank is on the right.'
Why do sağ and sol both end with -da here?
The suffix -da is the locative case, which tells us where something is ('in', 'on', or 'at'). It attaches to the nouns sağ (right) and sol (left) to mean 'on the right' and 'on the left'.
Why don't we use var to mean 'is' in this sentence?
Could I use ve (and) instead of the comma?
Yes, you could perfectly well say Banka sağda ve market solda. However, in conversational Turkish, it is very common to drop ve and just use a slight pause (represented by the comma) to smoothly connect short, contrasting statements like this.
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