"The judge drinks coffee."

Translation: Yargıç kahve içer.

[UmarHussai3]

Anyone else choose Hakim? (both urdu and arabic it means judge!)

[orde90]

Hakim is much more common than yargıç

[Ektoraskan]

Both are correct.

Note that "Hâkim" is spelt with a circumflex accent.

[AnCatDubh]

Why the circumflex?

[Ektoraskan]

That's actually how the word is written. But not everyone uses it.

[myahyamuhaimin]

how do we type that letter with a Turkish keyboard?

[Ektoraskan]

(Shift+3) -release- A

[myahyamuhaimin]

I'm using Linux.

I tried your technique,
I tried this table: https://tools.oratory.com/altcodes.html,
no luck!

Finally, I found it!
It's [Alt Gr]+A for my keyboard layout.

ââââââ

Hâkim

[OumAlwaffa]

Who said that?? Hakim in Arabic could mean both a doctor or a wise man but never a judge.

[ex_contributor]

a doctor in Turkish can also be hekim, but not hakim :)

[AyaA2]

Why isn't it: kahveyi ?

[ToBePolyglott]

The judge drinks coffee. Yargıç kahve içer. (General)

The judge drinks the coffee. Yargıç kahveyi içer. (Specific)

[AnCatDubh]

That would be ‘the coffee’, I suppose.

[Markus_H]

why is "yargıçı" wrong?

[DottyEyes]

Because "the judge" is the SUBJECT of the sentence. You always use the NON-MODIFIED form of the word for the subject of a sentence, whether you mean "the [noun]" or "a [noun]." But if you do mean "a [noun]," then you use the non-modified form, but you add "bir" in front of it (sorry for all caps, which I'm using in place of italics for emphasis):

Yargıç ekmek yer. "The judge eats bread."
Bir yargıç ekmek yer. "A judge eats bread."

You use the "yargıçı" form to mean "the judge" only for OBJECTS in sentences. In the following examples, the judge is the object of the action:

Aslan yargıç yiyor. "The lion is eating a judge."
Aslan yargıçı yiyor. "The lion is eating the judge."

Duo-experts, please correct me if I've erred!

[Ektoraskan]

All correct! Very nice explanation! :-]

Just one tiny thing: "Yargıçı" is also incorrect in terms of phonetics. The ç should soften when the word receives a vowel: Yargıcı*.

[AlexinNotTurkey]

This looks good :) Also, if you want to put something in italics, you can surround the word with and asterix () word. If you want it to be bold, used two on each side bold. If you want it bold and italicized, use three on either side bam. :)

[DottyEyes]

Harika, AlexinNotTurkey! I had tried [i]/[/i] before to no avail. So, not only have I learned some Turkish, but I've learned some coding on Duolingo. (You might have created an emphasis monster here, haha!)