Sızıntı büyümeden tesisatçıyı aradım.

to grow

Breakdown of Sızıntı büyümeden tesisatçıyı aradım.

• aramak: to call
• -yı: accusative
• -meden: before

Questions & Answers about Sızıntı büyümeden tesisatçıyı aradım.

What does the ending in büyümeden do?

It’s the converb suffix -meden/-madan (negative + ablative), forming an adverbial meaning:

• “without V‑ing,” and very often, by context, “before (it) V’s.” Morphology: büyü- (to grow) + -me (negation) + -den (ablative) → “without growing / before it grows.” It carries no tense itself; its time is understood relative to the main verb (aradım, past).

Do I need to say büyümeden önce, or is büyümeden alone okay?

Both are acceptable here.

• Sızıntı büyümeden önce… is explicitly “before the leak grows/grew.”
• Sızıntı büyümeden… often means the same in practice, though literally “without the leak growing.” If you want to remove any ambiguity, use -meden önce.

Who is the subject of büyümeden in this sentence?

It’s the nearby noun sızıntı (“the leak”). In Sızıntı büyümeden, the implicit subject of the converb is the leak. If you dropped the noun and said just Büyümeden tesisatçıyı aradım, it would be awkward/ambiguous (“Before growing, I called…”—who’s growing?). So the noun anchors the subject of the converb.

Why is it tesisatçıyı (accusative) and not just tesisatçı?