"It is dinner time."
Translation:Akşam yemeği zamanı.
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Isn't this just a noun phrase? To me, it seems equivalent to "dinner time" not "it is dinner time". If it is the latter, which is the translation given here, and the subject and copular are implied, is this structure common? Making " kedi", for example, a possible sentence meaning "it is a cat".
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O Akşam yemeği zamanı. or Akşam yemeği zamandır. means literately It is dinner time. I think Akşam yemeği zamanı is the common phrase for this meaning.
When two nouns are together, the second one obligatorily receives the 3rd person possessive suffix.
Akşam + yemek = akşam yemeği
[Akşam yemeği] + zaman = akşam yemeği zamanı
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Maybe it should be "var" instead of "-dır"? I'm also curious about the right way to say it in this factual way.
"Zaman" doesn't technically "belong" to "akşam yemeği," so no genitive marker needs to be put on it. As explained in the notes for this lesson, when two nouns are combined to form a concept, the first noun does not get any suffixes, while the second gets the possessive marker. In this case, the two nouns are "akşam yemeği" and "zaman." Only "zaman" gets changed.
I think you need a comma between "o" and "akşam" or it'll end up meaning "that" instead of "it". not sure tho
