Mesai bugün erken bitti.

today

Breakdown of Mesai bugün erken bitti.

• bitmek: to end
• erken: early
• mesai: the work hours

Questions & Answers about Mesai bugün erken bitti.

What does mesai mean here?

In this sentence, mesai most naturally means work, the workday, working hours, or the shift.

A useful thing to know is that mesai can also mean overtime in other contexts. So its exact meaning depends on the situation.

Here, in Mesai bugün erken bitti, it usually means something like:

• Work ended early today
• The shift ended early today
• Working hours finished early today

So mesai is a very common everyday word, but it is a little broader than just one English word.

What tense is bitti?

Bitti is the simple past tense of bitmek, which means to end or to finish.

Formation:

• bit- = verb stem
• -ti = past tense ending

So:

• bitmek = to end / to finish
• bitti = it ended / it finished

In this sentence, bitti means ended.

Why is it bitti and not bitirdi?