Nerede dukkana daha yakın ? Where is the nearest shop?

My try:

En yakın dükkan nerede ?

Explanation: in Turkish, you always put words describing some other word before it. Let´s start with the most simple sentence here: "where is the shop?"

Dükkan nerede ?

Now we want to add a description - "the nearest", so we say that we don´t look just for "some" shop, but for "the nearest". In Turkish "the nearest" is "en yakın". Because it describes "shop" ("dükkan") then it must come before it:

En yakın dükkan nerede ?

And - because I´m still beginner - it´s quite possible that I´m wrong I hope someone will correct it if I said something wrong here.

Thank you Tomac.  Do you know how to form superlatives in general, for eg fastest, slowest, etc

Thank you so much

As far as I know, it´s very simple - you just have to put word "en" before the adjective, for example:

fast - çabuk

fastest - en çabuk

beautiful - güzel

most beautiful - en güzel

It´s very similar when you want to say that something is "more ..." than something else - then you have to use word ´daha´:

faster - daha çabuk

more beautiful - daha güzel

You can read more about it in this lesson: http://www.turkishclass.com/turkish_lesson_73

By the way, as far as I know you can omit "daha" word when comparing two things or persons, which/who are mentioned in the sentence. I´ve read about it in G.L. Lewis "Turkish Grammar" - however, I have only access to old edition of this book (it´s about 40 year old), so I´m not sure if it is still correct in modern turkish to skip word "daha" in this way. Maybe someone more advanced can say something about it ?

Anyway, there is an example in this lesson:

Gökçe is more beautiful than Beril. --> Gökçe Beril´den daha güzel.

As far as I know, "daha" can be omitted here, because both persons being compared (Gökçe and Beril) are mentioned here, so it could be also written like this:

Gökçe Beril´den güzeldir. (correction thanks to imantay).

It cannot be omitted when second person or object is not mentioned explicitly in the sentence:

Gökçe is more beautiful. --> Gökçe daha güzel.

If we omit "daha" then we would get "Gökçe güzel", which simply means "Gökçe is beautiful" (so we lose the word "more").

This wasnt my post, but i´d just like to say you have helped me. You explain things really well!

And if you are a beginner, then i do not wish to think what i am!

Thank you Tomac. You are very smart  God Bless

hey Tomac, like you said, sometimes we can omit the word ´daha´ but i think you have to use the verb ´be´ instead which is in turkish´dir´:

Gökçe Beril´den güzeldir

Thank you very much, imantay, this is very valuable info! It seems there are really many small and big things to learn when learning another language.

kuskonmaz, Mysty, thank you very much and good luck

i´m glad i could help and yeah u have to be patient cuz it´s takes a lot to learn a new language

You can omit it when the sentence is short and simple:

Ayşe, Fatma´dan güzel.

You cannot omit it when the sentence is long and/or complicated:

(I searched in google for "daha iyi":12.000.000 results. Here are some examples from the first page)

Doğuş Grubu Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Ferit Şahenk, "Türkiye´yi 2010´da diğer büyüyen piyasalardan daha iyi görüyorum..."

Devlet Bakanı ve Başbakan Yardımcısı Ali Babacan, 2010 yılının hangi açıdan bakılırsa bakılsın 2009 yılından daha iyi bir yıl olacağını belirterek, ...

Sol bekte oynayan R. Carlos, Hakan Balta´ dan daha iyi oyuncu.

Kapanmaktansa açılmak daha iyi.

Thank you very much for your explanation, upsy_daisy