İndirme başladı.

The download started.

Breakdown of İndirme başladı.

• başlamak: to start
• indirme: the download

Questions & Answers about İndirme başladı.

What does indirme mean here, grammatically?

Here, indirme is a verbal noun built from indirmek (to download).

• indir- = the verb stem
• -me = a suffix that can turn a verb into a noun

So indirme means something like:

• downloading
• the act of downloading
• the download process

In this sentence, it functions like the subject: The downloading / the download has started.

Why does indirme end in -me?

Because -me / -ma is one common way Turkish turns a verb into a noun.

Examples:

• yazmak = to write → yazma = writing
• okumak = to read → okuma = reading
• indirmek = to download → indirme = downloading

The vowel is -me rather than -ma because of vowel harmony.

Is indirme negative here? I thought -me could mean not.