How in Turkish do you handle two verbs in a sentence ... or do you rephrase so you only have one  !

For example   -   He is coming by car to repair the ACU in the Hotel      I am guessing something like

O arabayla klimayi otele onarýyor   

Does that make sense or do I need a geliyor somewhere ?

Thanks

Ian

I love your nickname - good job with the fiords

I´m not sure but I´d say it´s:

O, klima onarmak için arabayla geliyor

In your sentence you don´t express the purpose of his visit

 You left the hotel bit out DD - I think that would be - O, otelin klimasý onarmak için, arabayla geliyor

Spot on LiR!

Thanks folks.  You are exceeding my extremely limitted ken       The "ýn" and "sý" are new endings to me but I get the gist.    I wouldn´t have expected the için to be placed there but I can see the sense I think   

Just when you think you are making a little progress you realise how much your teacher has protected you from the big bad language .

Thanks, food for thought and more digging. 

The "ýn" and "sý" are used to describe possessive relations between nouns

Ýçin expresses purpose:

The Turkish sentence could be brought down as:

He, hotel´s AC in order to repair by car is coming.

So, quite the other way around an English speaker would do:

He is coming by car in order to repair hotel´s AC

The main sentence is "He´s coming by car" so the main verb is at the end of the sentence in Turkish. The fact that he´s coming to repair the AC is additional information (a subordinate clause) and preceeds the main verb

Many thanks for taking the time and trouble to explain.   I had a look at my various reference materials and one of the links in the stickies has a really handy list of all the endings which is  invaluable, but the addditional guidance is much appreciated

I know how furustrating it can be giving the same information to newbie after newbie

So long and thanks for all the fish

DD , if the emphasis was on the "repair" rather than the "coming", how woudld that change the sentence ?

I can´t imagine the sentence looking any different as "repair" has to be in subordinate clause. You might want to say He´s repairing the AC but then there´d be no notion of his coming. Perhaps our natives could help? Anyone?

sure DD

In Turkish, the stressed word in a sentence is usually the one just before the predicate.

in this case, the predicate is "geliyor".

if you say

O, arabayla oteldeki klimayi onarmaya geliyor

the stressed word is "repair"

if you say

O, oteldeki klimayi onarmaya arabayla geliyor.

the stressed word is "car".

If you say

arabayla oteldeki klimayi onarmaya o geliyor

the stressed word is "he"

btw. you don`t need to use the "o" in the sentence.

Hey, just a small addition

Hi Ian, as a fellow learner I will try to break down dilliduduk´s additional correction as I understand it.

O, otelin klimasýný onarmak için, arabayla geliyor

klima = air-conditioning

klimasý = the air-conditioning

otel = hotel

otelin = hotel´s .... (and what is being owned or possessed by the ´hotel´ needs the possessive suffix "i", and also a buffer letter as "clima" ends in a vowel)

otelin climasý = the hotel´s air-conditioning

(and to indicate it is an object in the sentence (what needs to be fixed), the additional "ni" suffix on the climasý then tells you that the hotel´s air-conditioning is what is to be fixed)

otelin klimasýný onarmak = to fix/repair the hotel´s air-conditioning