Yıl bitince işten ayrılacağım.

I will leave the job when the year ends.

Breakdown of Yıl bitince işten ayrılacağım.

• bitmek: to end
• yıl: the year
• işten ayrılmak: to leave a job

Questions & Answers about Yıl bitince işten ayrılacağım.

What does bitince mean, and how is it formed?

Bitince comes from the verb bitmek = to end / to finish.

It is made of:

• bit- = the verb stem
• -ince = a suffix meaning when, once, or after

So:

• yıl bitince = when the year ends / once the year is over

This suffix is very common in Turkish for time clauses:

• gelince = when he/she comes
• eve varınca = when I arrive home
• iş bitince = when the work is finished

In this sentence, bitince sets the time for the main action.

Why is it yıl bitince and not yıl bitincek or something with a future ending?

Because Turkish usually does not use a future tense form in the when clause here.

In English, we say:

• When the year ends, I will leave my job.

Notice that English also uses the present form ends, not will end, in the when clause.

Turkish works similarly:

• Yıl bitince = when the year ends
• ... ayrılacağım = I will leave

So the future meaning is already understood from the context and from the main verb ayrılacağım.