Questions & Answers about Evin dışı çok soğuk, içi sıcak.
We are learning words like içinde and dışında for 'inside' and 'outside'. Why are they just içi and dışı here?
In this lesson, you are learning that spatial words like iç (inside) and dış (outside) are actually nouns. Usually, we add the locative case to say something is located at the inside (içinde). But here, the outside and the inside are the subjects of the sentence—they are the things that are cold and warm. So, they just take the possessive suffix (-i or -ı) without the location marker.
Why is the word for house evin instead of just ev?
The word evin has the genitive suffix -in, which means 'of the house' or 'the house's'. Turkish links the owner (evin) and the owned thing (dışı) together. So, evin dışı literally translates to 'the house's outside'.
Why does the second part just say içi sıcak instead of evin içi sıcak?
Since we already established we are talking about the house, we do not need to repeat evin. The possessive suffix -i on the end of içi means 'its'. So içi sıcak simply means 'its inside is warm', which is much more natural than repeating the word for house.
I have seen sıcak translated as 'hot'. Does it also mean 'warm'?