Questions & Answers about Midem için bu çay çok iyi.
The word for stomach is mide. Why is the suffix just -m here?
Since mide already ends in a vowel, it only needs the letter -m to show possession (my stomach). It is easy at this stage to accidentally mix up possessive endings with 'to be' endings: midem means 'my stomach', whereas mideyim would mean 'I am a stomach'!
Where is the verb 'is' in this sentence?
There isn't a visible one! In Turkish, you do not need a word for 'is' when describing a third-person subject like 'this tea'. The adjective iyi (good) sits at the end of the sentence and does the job of the whole verb phrase 'is good'.
Why is midem için at the beginning of the sentence? Shouldn't the subject bu çay come first?
Turkish word order is flexible, and putting a phrase at the very beginning of the sentence is a common way to emphasize it. By starting with midem için, the speaker is stressing 'As for my stomach, this tea is very good.' The standard subject-first order (Bu çay midem için çok iyi) is also perfectly correct.
Does için always come after the word it connects to?
Yes, için is a postposition. Unlike English prepositions (like 'for', 'with', or 'to') that come before a noun, Turkish postpositions always come right after the word they apply to. So 'for my stomach' translates in reverse order as midem için.