Bu belge gerçeği ortaya çıkarıyor.

This document reveals the truth.

Breakdown of Bu belge gerçeği ortaya çıkarıyor.

• bu: this
• belge: the document
• gerçek: the truth
• ortaya çıkarmak: to reveal

Questions & Answers about Bu belge gerçeği ortaya çıkarıyor.

What does Bu mean and how is it used here

Bu is a demonstrative pronoun meaning this. It goes directly before belge to point out this document in particular. Turkish does not have separate articles like the or a, so we use bu to specify “this.”

Why doesn’t belge have any suffix for case or number?

Here belge is the subject in the nominative case. Turkish does not mark the nominative with a suffix, and singular nouns appear without a plural ending if they refer to one item. To make it plural, you would say belgeler (documents).

Why does gerçeği end with -i and what does that suffix indicate?

The -i is the accusative case marker. It shows that gerçeği (“the truth”) is a definite direct object. In Turkish, direct objects receive -i / -ı / -u / -ü when they are specific or known to the speaker.

How would you say “This document reveals a truth” (i.e. an indefinite truth)?

Introduce bir for “a” and drop the accusative suffix to keep it non-specific:
• Bu belge bir gerçek ortaya çıkarıyor.
Here bir gerçek means “a truth” in general, without making it a particular known truth.

What does ortaya mean and why isn’t it attached to the verb?

ortaya literally means “to the surface” or “into the open.” Along with çıkarmak it forms the compound verb ortaya çıkarmak (“to bring to light” or “to reveal”). In Turkish, components of compound verbs often remain as separate words.

What’s the difference between ortaya çıkmak and ortaya çıkarmak?

• ortaya çıkmak is intransitive: “to appear” or “to come out.”
• ortaya çıkarmak is the causative form: “to cause to appear,” i.e. “to reveal.”

Why does the verb appear as çıkarıyor here?

çıkarıyor is built from:

1. çıkar- (stem of çıkarmak)
2. -ıyor (present continuous suffix)
3. Ø (zero ending for 3rd person singular)
   Together they mean “is revealing” (or simply “reveals”).

Why is the verb placed at the end of the sentence?

Turkish follows Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order. The sequence here is:

1. Subject – Bu belge
2. Object – gerçeği
3. Verb – ortaya çıkarıyor

How would you turn this into the past tense (“revealed”)?

Swap -ıyor for the simple past suffix -dı (with vowel harmony):
• Bu belge gerçeği ortaya çıkardı.

How do you form the future tense (“will reveal”)?

Use the future tense suffix -acak / -ecek:
• Bu belge gerçeği ortaya çıkaracak.