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With a definite apple and without Continuous this sounds really weird. Kinda like from time to time you eat the same apple... Dare I ask, over and over again? or nip by nip? or does it grow whole after each bite?
"sen" is informal and singular.
"siz" is formal and/or plural.
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When by using you, you mean the plural form; you should use Siz. Otherwise Sen is acceptable. ;-)
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elmayı is accusative. it pretty much means "the apple" and it is given the accusative form because it is in the object position of the sentence
elma is apple but elmayi is the apple due to the yi in the end of the word that means the
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A question about the pronunciation here, I've noticed Turkish seems to mesh vowels and y's together pronunciation wise, and right here it sounds as if shes "Sen elma yersin." Should it be this way and sort of hold the "y" sound out a bit more, or should the words be more separated and clearly say both y's, "yu-yersin"?
Both should be clearly stated. The slow version of the audio will give you a more authentic pronunciation for this sentence. Sorry...the audio is not the best, but it is what we have to work with for now! :)
A bit off-topic:
There is something called "vowel reduction" in Turkish. So some forms of a given word may be pronounced the same in careless speech, like:
"Sokağı görüyor musun?" and "Sokağa çıkıyorum."
Technically speaking, "sokağı" and "sokağı" are pronounced differently. However, in careless speech, both can be pronounced as "sokağa". So you can actually hear someone saying "Ben o sokağa görmüyorum."
So that's something learners should be aware of when listening to native speakers.
