Word
Bilmece kronometre durmadan çözüldü.
Meaning
The riddle was solved without stopping the stopwatch.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Bilmece kronometre durmadan çözüldü.
durmak
to stop
çözmek
to solve
bilmece
a riddle
kronometre
a stopwatch
Questions & Answers about Bilmece kronometre durmadan çözüldü.
Why is çözüldü used instead of çözdü?
Because çözüldü is the passive/intransitive form.
- çözdü = he/she/it solved
- çözüldü = it was solved / it got solved
It breaks down like this:
- çöz- = solve
- -ül- = passive/inchoative marker here
- -dü = past tense
So bilmece çözüldü means the riddle was solved, not someone solved the riddle in an active way.
Why does bilmece have no ending? Shouldn't it be bilmeceyi if it is the thing being solved?
In an active sentence, yes, you would often get bilmeceyi:
- Birisi bilmeceyi çözdü = Someone solved the riddle
But in this sentence the verb is passive: çözüldü. In Turkish, the thing affected by a passive verb becomes the grammatical subject, and subjects normally appear in the bare nominative form, with no ending.
So:
- bilmece çözüldü = the riddle was solved
That is why you see bilmece, not bilmeceyi.
What does durmadan mean, and how is it formed?