Questions & Answers about Bu apartman yeni, asansörü de var.
Wait, doesn't apartman mean a single apartment?
Not quite! It's a false friend. In Turkish, apartman means the entire apartment building. If you want to talk about a single apartment unit or flat, you need to use the word daire.
Why is there an -ü at the end of asansörü?
It is the 3rd person singular possessive suffix, meaning 'its'. In Turkish, to say that something has something else, you use the possessive + var ('its object exists'). So, asansörü var literally translates to 'its elevator exists', which means 'it has an elevator'.
Since asansör is a borrowed word, does it still follow normal vowel harmony for that -ü suffix?
Yes! While foreign words often break vowel harmony internally (like having both 'a' and 'ö' in asansör), the suffixes you add to them usually match the very last vowel of the word. Since the last vowel is ö, 4-way vowel harmony rules require the suffix to be -ü.
Why is de written as a separate word here?
When written separately, de (or da) means 'also', 'too', or 'as well'. In this sentence, it adds the meaning that the building also has an elevator. If it were attached directly to the word as a suffix (-de / -da), it would mean 'in', 'on', or 'at'.