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Grafik her ay güncelleniyor.
Meaning
The chart is updated every month.
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Breakdown of Grafik her ay güncelleniyor.
her
every
ay
the month
güncellenmek
to be updated
grafik
the chart
Questions & Answers about Grafik her ay güncelleniyor.
What role does her ay play in this sentence?
her ay is a time-frequency adverbial meaning every month. It tells us how often the action occurs. In English you’d say “the graph is updated every month.”
Why is güncelleniyor in the passive voice, and why don’t we see who updates it?
Because the focus is on the graph being updated, not on who does it. Turkish uses a passive voice to hide or deemphasize the agent. Here güncelleniyor literally means “is being updated.”
How is the passive formed in güncelleniyor?
Start with the verb stem güncelle- (from güncel “current” plus -le “make”), then add the passive suffix -n, then the progressive tense suffix -iyor.
So: güncelle + n + iyor → güncelleniyor.
What does the suffix -iyor indicate here?
-iyor is the present-progressive suffix. It marks an ongoing action or a regularly repeated process. Even if it’s not happening at this exact second, it signals “is being updated” or “gets updated regularly.”
Could we use the simple/aorist passive güncellenir instead of güncelleniyor?