Use a small family of time adverbs to place an event in the morning, evening or night. At this level, the challenge is knowing where the ending works, not calculating a new vowel for every noun.
The idea
Attach -leyin directly: sabah → sabahleyin, akşam → akşamleyin, gece → geceleyin. It stays -leyin even after a back vowel; these stems do not soften. Write each form as one word. For noon, learn the shortened form öğleyin: the table shows its visible ending -yin, not a freely usable alternative. The adverb locates an event within a part of the day; it does not by itself mean “every day”. When the time expression itself is the predicate, it can take the past copula: Randevum sabahleyindi. means “My appointment was in the morning.” The longer chains show sabah + leyin + di, akşam + leyin + di and gece + leyin + di: the final -di adds “was”; it is not part of -leyin.
| Base | Visible ending | Time adverb |
|---|---|---|
| sabah | -leyin | sabahleyin |
| akşam | -leyin | akşamleyin |
| gece | -leyin | geceleyin |
| öğle | -yin | öğleyin |
Examples
- Sabahleyin fırından ekmek alıyoruz.We buy bread from the bakery in the morning.
- Akşamleyin bahçede çay içiyoruz.We drink tea in the garden in the evening.
- Geceleyin sokaklar sessiz oluyor.The streets become quiet at night.
- Öğleyin kısa bir mola veriyoruz.We take a short break at noon.
- sabahleyinin the morningsabahleyin-leyin: at a time of day
- akşamleyinin the eveningakşamleyin-leyin: at a time of day
- geceleyinat nightgeceleyin-leyin: at a time of day
- Randevum sabahleyindi.My appointment was in the morning.
- sabahleyindiit was in the morningsabahleyin-leyin: at a time of daydiWas and were: -di after nouns (öğrenciydim)
- Konser akşamleyindi.The concert was in the evening.
- akşamleyindiit was in the eveningakşamleyin-leyin: at a time of daydiWas and were: -di after nouns (öğrenciydim)
- Yolculuk geceleyindi.The journey was at night.
- geceleyindiit was at nightgeceleyin-leyin: at a time of daydiWas and were: -di after nouns (öğrenciydim)
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Watch out
Do not turn this into a general ending for all time nouns. For five o’clock, say saat beşte. For noon, write öğleyin, not öğleleyin. Keep the front vowels in akşamleyin even though akşam has back vowels.
Try it yourself
Join sabah and -leyin to say “in the morning”.
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sabahleyin
sabahleyin: the morning word takes the fixed ending directly. The final h stays, and the ending keeps e and dotted i despite the preceding a.
Join gece and -leyin to say “at night”.
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geceleyin
geceleyin: the stem already ends in a vowel, but the ending starts with l, so no linking y is needed between stem and suffix.
Write the shortened time adverb from öğle: at noon.
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öğleyin
öğleyin: this is the established shortened noon form. Adding the full ending mechanically would repeat le and produce the wrong spelling.
Write the full expression “at five o’clock”, starting with saat.
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saat beşte
saat beşte: a clock reading needs a locative time expression. The number ends in voiceless ş, so beş takes -te.
Practice round
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Join sabah and -leyin to say “in the morning”.
Join gece and -leyin to say “at night”.
Write the shortened time adverb from öğle: at noon.
Write the full expression “at five o’clock”, starting with saat.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the parts in order to build this word: in the morning
Tap the parts in order to build this word: in the evening
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Write a morning plan and an evening plan with the time adverbs. Then give one plan a precise clock time and replace the adverb with the appropriate time expression.