"Where are you running to?"
Translation:Nereye koşuyorsun?
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Nereye = (to) where, whither -- indicates a direction
Nerede = where -- indicates a place
"Nerde" is how most people pronounce "nerede", but you shouldn't write it like that. (Just like you shouldn't write "wanna" - fine in speech but not (yet) appropriate in writing.)
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Those are for yes-no questions and "multiple-choice" questions, but you don't need them if you have a WH- word such as nereye "whither? where (to)?".
It is fine, just a missing alternative.
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I would like to note that when you put "sen" right before "koşuyorsun" (the verb), it puts extra emphasis on the subject "sen". Unless you want to emphasize the subject, you would not normally ask this question like that.
Why "koşuyorsun", and not "koşyorsun"? The infinitive form of the verb is "koşmak".
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Yes, it's koşmak, so you take the -İyor- ending (capital -İ- standing for a vowel subject to four-way vowel harmony) and it becomes koş-uyor-sun with the -İyor- turning into -uyor- after the back rounded vowel -o- of koş-.
