"Yazın geceler kısadır."

Translation: The nights are short in the summer.

[zesamsam]

Can it be translated as "the summer nights are short"?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

You would expect a noun compound for that sentence "Yaz geceleri":)

[Ava172598]

Yes exactly

[grace81617]

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"

[00905356841928wp]

Me too

[mindgrain]

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?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

"Yaz" is an irregular word. It isn't in the genitive here, but rather just takes that same suffix when used in time expressions.

[Shahrazad26]

Why is this a time expression?

[AyyashElmota]

So the trick here is that "Yazin" is actually "Yazda" but irregular.

[primeaux123]

could I say 'yazda geceler kisadir' ?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Nope, "yaz" is an irregular word. You would just have to say "yazın" :)

[SuhailBanister]

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]

Gece- night
Geceler - nights
Geceleri- the nights?