"The man is going to the bank."
Translation:Adam bankaya gidiyor.
January 23, 2016
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The turkish word for bank is ''banka'' . So the last ''a'' is Not a dative ending .
Because he is going to the bank.
The dative ending -ya here shows that it is the destination of the movement.
"Adam banka gidiyor" would make as much sense as "The man is going bank" in English.
I think it's because Turkish uses Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) ordering. Who/what is going? It's the man, hence he's the subject. Turkish makes a lot more sense when you grasp this principle.
I'm a native turkish speaker and I made mistake as well so dont get sad too much when you made mistakes kind of these.
