Learn Hardcore Turkish: Mesai bugün erken bitti.

Bold mesai bold means the official working hours or duty period (often office hours), not the job itself. It focuses on the schedule/time frame. By contrast, bold iş bold is “work” as an activity, and bold vardiya bold is a “shift.” You’ll also hear bold fazla mesai bold for “overtime.”

Where is the subject pronoun “it”? Why isn’t there an “it” in the sentence?

Turkish doesn’t use dummy subjects like English “it.” The subject is bold mesai bold, and Turkish drops pronouns whenever they’re obvious from context or verb endings. So bold Mesai bugün erken bitti bold literally says “Work-hours today early ended.” No extra pronoun is needed.

Why is it bold bitti bold and not bold bitirdi bold?

Bold bitmek bold is intransitive “to end/finish (by itself),” while bold bitirmek bold is transitive “to finish (something).”

In this sentence, the workday ended on its own: bold bitti bold.
If people actively finished it, you’d use bold bitirmek bold with an object: bold Mesaiyi erken bitirdik bold (We finished the workday early).

What tense/form is bold bitti bold?

It’s the simple past (di’li geçmiş zaman). Morphology: bold bit-mek → bit-ti bold. The past suffix appears as -di/-dı/-du/-dü, but after a voiceless consonant it surfaces as -ti/-tı/-tu/-tü, hence bold bitti bold. The double t is just the verb stem’s final t plus the suffix’s t.

Can I change the word order? Where do bold bugün bold and bold erken bold go?