Breakdown of Hava çok sıcak, dondurma istiyorum.
çok
very
sıcak
hot
istemek
to want / to require / to call for
hava
weather
dondurma
ice cream
Questions & Answers about Hava çok sıcak, dondurma istiyorum.
Why is there no word for 'is' after sıcak?
In Turkish, you often do not need a word for 'is' when making a simple statement about the present. For 'I am' or 'you are', you add a personal suffix, but for 'he', 'she', or 'it' (like the weather), you just use the adjective alone. So, hava çok sıcak simply means 'the weather is very hot'.
Since 'ice cream' is the object I want, why isn't it dondurmayı?
You only use the accusative case ending (like -yı) when you are talking about a specific object, meaning 'the ice cream'. Because you are just saying you want ice cream in general, it stays in its basic dictionary form, dondurma.
The verb for 'to want' is istemek. Why is it istiyorum and not isteyorum?
When a verb root ends in a or e (like iste-), the continuous present tense suffix -yor changes that final vowel into ı, i, u, or ü to match vowel harmony. This is called vowel narrowing. Here, the e narrows to an i, making it istiyorum.
Do I need to say ben before istiyorum?
No, you do not have to. The -um ending on istiyorum already tells us the subject is 'I'. You can add ben if you really want to emphasize that it is you who wants it, but usually, the pronoun is left out.
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