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Doğada yürüyüş büyük bir keyif.

Doğada yürüyüş büyük bir keyif.
A walk in nature is a great pleasure.
From Lesson 96:Verbal nouns as objects (-mAyI / -mEyI)·Turkish

Breakdown of Doğada yürüyüş büyük bir keyif.

bir
a / an
büyük
big
doğa
nature
yürüyüş
walk / hike
keyif
enjoyment, pleasure

Questions & Answers about Doğada yürüyüş büyük bir keyif.

The current lesson is about verbal nouns like yürümeyi. Why does this sentence use yürüyüş instead?
The lesson covers the -meyi / -mayı suffix used when an action is the object of a sentence (like in "I love walking"). In this sentence, the walk is the subject ("A walk... is a great pleasure"), so it doesn't need the accusative -i ending. Also, yürüyüş is a noun meaning "a walk" or "the act of walking", which perfectly fits describing the activity itself.
Where is the verb "is" in this sentence?
It is implied! In Turkish, you can make a complete sentence without a visible verb by just ending with a noun or adjective. The formal "is" suffix here would be -tir (keyiftir), but it is usually left off in everyday statements.
Why is the word order büyük bir keyif instead of bir büyük keyif?
In English we say "a great pleasure", but in Turkish, when you use a descriptive adjective (like büyük) alongside the word bir (a/an), the adjective comes first. It translates literally as "great a pleasure".
What is the -da suffix doing in doğada?
The word doğa means nature. The -da suffix is the locative case, which means "in", "on", or "at". Attached to the noun, doğada simply means "in nature".

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