İki takım elendi.

• iki = two
• takım = team
• elendi = was eliminated / got eliminated

So the structure is:

• iki takım = two teams
• elendi = the verb in the past tense

A very literal breakdown would be two team got-eliminated, but in natural English that becomes Two teams were eliminated or Two teams got eliminated.

Because in Turkish, nouns after numbers are normally singular in form.

So:

• iki takım = two teams
• üç öğrenci = three students
• beş gün = five days

Using takımlar after iki would sound wrong in standard Turkish.

This is one of the biggest differences from English:
English says two teams, but Turkish says literally two team.

In Turkish, when the subject is a number phrase like iki takım, the verb is normally kept in the 3rd person singular.

So:

• İki takım elendi. = correct standard Turkish

Not:

• İki takım elendiler. = not standard here

This often feels strange to English speakers, because English requires plural agreement: Two teams were eliminated. Turkish does not work the same way in this structure.

The dictionary form is elenmek.

That means to be eliminated or to get eliminated.

So the sentence uses:

• elen- = verb stem
• -di = past tense

Result:

• elendi = was eliminated / got eliminated

elemek means to eliminate.

elenmek is the related form meaning to be eliminated.

So you can think of the relationship like this:

• Bir takımı elediler. = They eliminated a team.
• Bir takım elendi. = A team was eliminated.

For learners, it is usually enough to understand elenmek as the intransitive/passive-style partner of elemek.

-di is the definite past tense suffix.

It shows that the action happened in the past:

• eleniyor = is being eliminated / is getting eliminated
• elendi = was eliminated / got eliminated
• elenecek = will be eliminated

In this sentence, -di tells you the elimination already happened.

Yes. This is the most neutral and natural order.

Turkish often places the verb at the end, so:

• İki takım = subject
• elendi = verb

Turkish word order is flexible, but İki takım elendi is the standard, neutral way to say it.

Yes, takım can have several meanings depending on context, such as:

• team
• set
• group
• in some contexts, even suit as in clothing

But in a sentence with elendi, the most natural meaning is team, especially in a sports or competition context.

It can correspond to either in English.

• was eliminated = more neutral/formal
• got eliminated = more conversational

Turkish elendi itself does not force exactly one of those English choices. The best translation depends on tone and context.

Because Turkish does not have a direct equivalent of the English definite article the.

So İki takım elendi can be interpreted from context as:

• Two teams were eliminated
• sometimes, depending on context, something closer to The two teams were eliminated

Usually the surrounding context tells you whether the teams are already known or not.

The ı is the Turkish dotless i, and it is one of the sounds English speakers often need practice with.

A few points:

• It is not like English ee
• It is not like the i in sit
• It is a deeper, more central vowel sound

So:

• takım is roughly tah-kum or tah-kuhm, but neither spelling is perfect

The important thing is to keep ı different from i:

• i = front vowel, like in iki
• ı = dotless, deeper vowel, like in takım

You can for analysis, but not for natural English.

A literal gloss is:

• İki = two
• takım = team
• elendi = got eliminated / was eliminated

So the literal shape is two team was/got eliminated, but good English is:

• Two teams were eliminated.

That difference is normal when moving between Turkish and English.