"Bebek süt içer."

Translation: The baby drinks milk.

[DreadedRob]

This sentence could never mean : Babies drink milk, right? I sometimes get confused by Persian where generalisations can also be made using the singular...

[AlexinNotTurkey]

It most certainly cannot mean that. you would have to say "bebekler..." :) You do have to mark subjects for plurality in Turkish.

[banichka1]

In turkish if you just append '-ler' or '-lar' to any noun it will become plural, so simple

[RyuYan]

Yeah, nouns in Turkish are tricky, except for objects.

Someone said you should assume it's a definate one when a singular noun appears as a subject. So you assume it's "the baby", not "a baby" or "babies" unless context says otherwise.

[deniz807310]

Başına "a" koymanız için bir bebek olması gerekmez mi?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Nope :) Ikisi de olur.

[BMY691]

Why 'the'?!, I wrote without 'the'but it came out wrong

[SabineBergmann1]

In the English language you always need an article.

[amrsoliman3]

why not sutu ?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Because it is a general direct object. "Bebek süt içer" is a general statement (The baby drinks milk). "Bebek sütü içer" is about specific milk (The baby drinks the milk).

[banichka1]

In turkish if you append 'a,i,o,u' to any noun, that will mean kind of 'the' in english. Basically a noun is very general, kalem=pen, milk=süt,

The pen = kalemi, the milk = sütu