Şirket tazminatı dün ödedi.

A simple breakdown is:

• şirket = company
• tazminatı = compensation + -ı accusative ending
• dün = yesterday
• ödedi = paid

So the structure is basically:

subject + object + time expression + verb

Very literally, Turkish is doing something like:

Company compensation-ACC yesterday paid

Because it is the direct object, and in this sentence it is understood as a specific/definite one.

Turkish often marks a definite direct object with the accusative ending. Here that ending is -ı.

So:

• tazminat = compensation
• tazminatı = the compensation / compensation as a definite direct object

The form of the suffix changes by vowel harmony:

• -ı / -i / -u / -ü

Since the last vowel in tazminat is a, the correct form here is -ı.

The biggest clue is the case ending.

• şirket has no case ending here, so it is in the basic subject form
• tazminatı has the accusative ending -ı, which marks it as the direct object

So even if the word order changed, that ending would still help you identify the object.

For a learner, this is an important habit in Turkish:
don’t rely only on word order; also look at the endings.

It comes from the dictionary form ödemek, which means to pay.

Build it like this:

• öde- = verb stem
• -di = past tense suffix

So:

• öde- + -di = ödedi

This means paid.

Also, in third person singular, Turkish does not add an extra ending after the past tense here. So ödedi already means:

• he paid
• she paid
• it paid

In this sentence, the subject is şirket, so in English you render it as the company paid.

Because Turkish does not have a word exactly like the English definite article the.

So şirket can often be translated as:

• the company
• a company
• sometimes just company, depending on context

In this sentence, English naturally uses the company, but Turkish does not need a separate word for that.

If you wanted to make it clearly indefinite, you could use bir:

• bir şirket = a company

Because Turkish normally prefers verb-final word order.

A very common basic pattern is:

subject + object + verb

Other elements, like time words, can move around fairly freely, but the verb often stays at the end.

So while English says:

The company paid the compensation yesterday

Turkish naturally puts the verb last:

Şirket tazminatı dün ödedi

This is one of the biggest word-order differences between English and Turkish.

Yes. That is also grammatical and natural.

Turkish word order is flexible, and moving elements around often changes focus or emphasis rather than basic meaning.

Compare:

• Şirket tazminatı dün ödedi
• Şirket dün tazminatı ödedi

Both can mean the same thing. In the original sentence, dün is right before the verb, which can make yesterday feel a bit more highlighted.

A useful rule of thumb is:

• the element just before the verb often gets special focus

Because Turkish usually does not need subject pronouns unless you want extra emphasis or contrast.

Here, the subject noun şirket is already present, so adding o would be unnecessary.

Turkish commonly leaves pronouns out when the meaning is clear. This is much more normal in Turkish than in English.

In principle, yes, but the meaning would change.

Compare:

• tazminatı = the compensation / a specific compensation payment
• tazminat = compensation in a more non-specific or less definite sense

So the accusative is not random; it helps show that the object is a specific one.

For English speakers, this is important because English often uses word order and articles, while Turkish often uses case endings to show these distinctions.

Not here. In this sentence, it is the accusative ending.

That can confuse learners because some Turkish endings can look similar. But in this sentence:

• tazminat = base noun
• tazminatı = accusative-marked direct object

So the meaning is not his/her compensation here. It is simply the compensation as the object of ödedi.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• Şirket ≈ shir-ket
• tazminatı ≈ taz-mee-na-tuh
• dün ≈ a bit like dyoon, but with Turkish ü
• ödedi ≈ uh/er-deh-dee, with Turkish ö

A few important letters:

• ş = English sh
• ı = a dotless vowel; not ee, more like a short relaxed vowel made deep in the mouth
• ö = like German ö or French eu
• ü = like German ü or French u

For many English speakers, ı, ö, and ü are the hardest sounds in this sentence.