Bu belgesel, bir fenomen haline gelmiş olayları ele alıyor.

This documentary addresses events that have become a phenomenon.

Breakdown of Bu belgesel, bir fenomen haline gelmiş olayları ele alıyor.

• bu: this
• bir: a
• olay: the event
• belgesel: the documentary

Questions & Answers about Bu belgesel, bir fenomen haline gelmiş olayları ele alıyor.

What is the role of -miş in gelmiş?

The suffix -miş here forms the past participle (reported/past-evidential) of gelmek (“to come”), giving “has become.” In Turkish relative clauses, gelmiş = “that has become.” So bir fenomen haline gelmiş translates as “that has become a phenomenon.”

Why do we use bir before fenomen?

In Turkish bir is the indefinite article meaning “a” or “an.” We include it because we’re saying “has become a phenomenon.” Without bir, it would literally read “has become phenomenon,” which is unnatural in English.

What does haline gelmek mean?

Literally:

• hal = “state” or “condition”
• -ine = the dative case ending, “into”
• gelmek = “to come”
  Put together, haline gelmek = “to come into a state,” idiomatically “to become.”

Why is olayları plural and marked with -ı?

• -lar turns olay (“event”) into (“events”).• is the accusative case marker for direct objects.Here we mean events (“those that have become a phenomenon”), so we use , giving .