"My son is teaching geography at a school."

Translation: Benim oğlum bir okulda coğrafya öğretiyor.

[BABELTOWER12]

Do you really have to count me wrong if I put okulda before oglum ?
I had "Okulda oglum cografya ogretiyor (with all the accents obviously).

[mizinamo]

"Okulda" would, I think be interpreted as "at the school" -- this has "at a school", and you need "bir okulda", to my knowledge.

And since "at a school" is new knowledge (it's not a school you had talked about previously, or you would have used "the"), putting it first sounds odd to me though I'm not sure whether it's actually wrong.

[Selcen_Ozturk]

this is a very good explanation :)

[Levi_J]

Could I say "öğreter" here instead of "öğretiyor"?

[Selcen_Ozturk]

it is "öğretir", not "öğreter"; and using the aorist tense in this sentence sounds very odd in Turkish.

[venatio]

"Oğlum coğrafya bir okulda öğretiyor." was rejected. I don't get this with the word order. I mean, "bir okulda" is in the locative case so there should be no confusion of what is being taught. Is there only one correct word order here??

[Selcen_Ozturk]

it is wrong because an indefinite object (coğrafya in this case) always comes right before the verb.

but locative and the subject can switch places (correct but still sounds a bit odd)

[venatio]

Okay , thank you for that information. :) So, you are implying that it is a "different story" as for an definite object (like coğrafyayı, in this case) then?

[shahidmecc]

Is benim necessary here.olum means my son.am i right

[UrsulaRohw]

Bir okulda oğlum coğrafya öğretiyor ...
Why is this wrong?