"Yazın geceler kısadır."
Translation:The nights are short in the summer.
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You would expect a noun compound for that sentence "Yaz geceleri":)
I answered " The summer nights are short" and it marked it wrong. In english it is the same meaning as "the nights are short in the summer"
Would 'Yazın geceleri kısadır.' (lit.: The nights of summer are short.) work? If 'yaz' is in genitive then why does 'geceler' not have an 'i'? Is 'Yazın geceler' some kind of expression?
"Yaz" is an irregular word. It isn't in the genitive here, but rather just takes that same suffix when used in time expressions.
Nope, "yaz" is an irregular word. You would just have to say "yazın" :)
And as a reminder to myself as much as anybody else, the same goes for "kış" and "kışın," but not "ilkbahar(da)" nor "sonbahar(da).
Izuchukwu1
Hello.
Gece - night
Geceler - nights
"Yazın geceler kısadır." The nights are short in the summer.
The summer nights are short. "Yaz geceleri kısadır." --> noun compound.
All correct.
Yıldızlar, gece, ay ve ben. "The stars, night, moon & me."
Thank you.
Summer nights OR the nights of summer. These should be accepted as correct as well. You need the locative case suffix -da/-de to really say "in".
Hello Hameed
The nights are short in the winter. --> "Kışın geceler kısadır."
The winter nights are short. "Kış geceleri kısadır." --> noun compound.
Thank you.