Breakdown of Bu şehirde çok tarihî bina var.
bu
this
var
there is / existent
bina
building
şehir
city
çok
a lot of / many
tarihî
historical
Questions & Answers about Bu şehirde çok tarihî bina var.
Why is it just bina instead of binalar since the English translation says "buildings"?
In Turkish, whenever you use a plural quantity word like çok (many) or a number, the noun that follows must stay in its singular form. So it is always çok bina, never çok binalar.
How would I apply this lesson's -mış suffix to say "Apparently there are many historical buildings in this city"?
You attach the suffix directly to the existence word at the end of the sentence. Var becomes varmış. Because var ends in a consonant and its vowel is 'a', you use -mış to follow 4-way vowel harmony.
What does the little hat on the 'î' in tarihî do?
It is a circumflex used in some Arabic and Persian loanwords. Here, it turns the noun tarih (history) into the adjective tarihî (historical) and tells you to pronounce the "i" slightly longer. Without it, the word just means "history".
Could I put çok right before var, like tarihî bina çok var?
While you might hear that in casual speech to emphasize the abundance, the standard word order keeps the phrase together. Here, çok modifies the whole concept of tarihî bina, so they stay together as a single block: çok tarihî bina.
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