Word
Kışın özellikle mercimek çorbası içiyorum.
Meaning
In winter I especially have lentil soup.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Kışın özellikle mercimek çorbası içiyorum.
içmek
to drink
çorba
soup
mercimek
lentil
kış
winter
Questions & Answers about Kışın özellikle mercimek çorbası içiyorum.
Why is it kışın for 'in winter' instead of using the locative case like kışta?
In Turkish, words for seasons and times of day often use the suffix -ın or -in to mean 'during' or 'in'. So kışın means 'in the winter', just like yazın means 'in the summer'. While kışta would be understood grammatically, kışın is the fixed, natural way to say it.
How does the word özellikle break down to mean 'especially'?
It comes from the root özel (special). Adding -lik makes it a noun, so özellik means 'feature' or 'specialty'. Finally, adding the suffix -le (with) turns it into an adverb. So özellikle literally means 'with specialty' or 'especially'.
Why is there an -sı at the end of çorbası?
This is a standard Turkish noun compound. When you link two nouns together to make a specific concept (like 'lentil' and 'soup'), the second noun must take a possessive suffix. Since çorba ends in a vowel, it takes -sı, making it mercimek çorbası (literally 'lentil its-soup').
The English translation says 'have lentil soup', but doesn't içiyorum mean 'I am drinking'?