Teslim tutanağı geçici kabulden sonra imzalandı.

It is a passive sentence in the simple past.

A rough structural breakdown is:

• Teslim tutanağı = the grammatical subject
• geçici kabulden sonra = a time expression meaning after ...
• imzalandı = was signed

So the overall pattern is:

• subject + time phrase + passive verb

This kind of structure is very common in formal or official Turkish.

Teslim tutanağı is a noun compound.

It is made of:

• teslim = delivery / handover
• tutanak = report, record, minutes, written report

In Turkish, when one noun modifies another noun like this, the second noun usually takes a special ending. So this is not just two separate nouns placed next to each other randomly; it is a normal Turkish compound pattern.

You can think of it as something like:

• delivery record
• handover report

Because in this noun compound, the second noun takes the third-person possessive-type compound suffix -(s)ı / -(s)i / -(s)u / -(s)ü.

So:

• tutanak
  • -ı
• becomes tutanağı

Two things happen:

1. The compound suffix is added.
2. Final k often changes to ğ before a vowel.

So:

• tutanak → tutanağı

Important: here, -ı does not mean direct object.
It is part of the noun compound.

Compare:

• teslim tutanağı = delivery report
• teslim tutanağını = the delivery report, as a definite direct object

Those are different forms.

Because sonra is a postposition, not a preposition.

English uses prepositions:

• after the acceptance

Turkish often uses postpositions:

• kabulden sonra
• literally something like acceptance-from after

So in Turkish, words like sonra come after the noun phrase they belong to.

Because sonra normally requires the noun before it to be in the ablative case.

So:

• kabul = acceptance
• kabulden = from acceptance / after acceptance in this structure

With sonra, Turkish uses:

• X-den sonra = after X

Examples:

• işten sonra = after work
• toplantıdan sonra = after the meeting
• kabulden sonra = after the acceptance

So -den is there because of the grammar of sonra.

It is a time adverbial phrase.

Breakdown:

• geçici kabul = provisional/temporary acceptance
• -den sonra = after

Together:

• geçici kabulden sonra = after the provisional acceptance

In the sentence, this phrase tells you when the signing happened.

imzalandı comes from the verb imzalamak, meaning to sign.

A useful breakdown is:

• imzala- = sign
• -n- = passive marker
• -dı = simple past

So:

• imzalandı = was signed

This is a very common Turkish passive pattern.

Examples:

• hazırlandı = was prepared
• onaylandı = was approved
• imzalandı = was signed

Turkish, especially in official, bureaucratic, legal, and technical language, often prefers the passive when the important thing is the action or the document, not the person who did it.

So:

• Teslim tutanağı ... imzalandı = The handover report was signed

This keeps the focus on the document.

If you wanted an active version, you would need to mention the signer, for example:

• Yetkili kişi teslim tutanağını geçici kabulden sonra imzaladı.

Here the sentence becomes active, and teslim tutanağını is now a direct object.

Because Turkish does not usually use articles like English the and a/an.

Definiteness is usually understood from:

• context
• word order
• case marking
• the type of noun phrase

So Teslim tutanağı can naturally correspond to the handover report in English, even though Turkish does not use a separate word for the.

If Turkish wants to emphasize a/an, it may use bir, but that is not needed here.

Yes. Turkish word order is flexible, although the verb usually stays at the end.

This sentence could also be said as:

• Geçici kabulden sonra teslim tutanağı imzalandı.

That version may sound a bit more natural to some speakers because it puts the time phrase first.

The original sentence is still correct. The difference is mostly about emphasis and information flow, not basic meaning.

Yes, it is often a set technical/administrative phrase, especially in fields like:

• construction
• procurement
• contracts
• public works
• inspections

It refers to a formal stage of provisional or temporary acceptance before final acceptance.

So in this sentence, geçici kabul is not just any random combination of temporary + acceptance. It is very likely a recognized procedural term.

In modern Turkish, ğ is usually not pronounced like a hard English g.

In a word like tutanağı, it often:

• lengthens the preceding vowel, or
• creates a very light glide

So tutanağı is not pronounced like tutanagi with a strong g sound.

For an English speaker, a reasonable approximation is something like:

• too-tah-nah-uh
• with a slight lengthening around the a

The exact sound varies a bit by speaker and region, but the main point is:

• ğ is usually soft and often almost disappears as a consonant.