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Questions & Answers about Başvuru bugün yapıldı.
Which word is the subject here, and why doesn’t it have any ending?
The subject is başvuru. In Turkish, subjects appear in the bare (nominative) form, so there’s no case ending. In a passive sentence like this, the thing that was acted upon becomes the grammatical subject.
What is the verb form yapıldı made of?
It’s: yap-ıl-dı
- yap-: verb root “do/make”
- -ıl-: passive voice suffix (be done/made)
- -dı: simple past tense (with vowel harmony, here “-dı” because the last vowel is back and unrounded: ı) Overall: “was done/made.”
Why is the passive voice used?
Turkish uses the passive to:
- omit an unknown/irrelevant doer
- emphasize the result/event
- sound neutral/formal (common in announcements) So the focus is on the application and the fact it was completed.
How would I say it actively, e.g., “I made the application today”?
- Bugün başvuruyu yaptım. (I made the application today.)
- Ali bugün başvuruyu yaptı. (Ali made the application today.) Note that in the active, başvuru becomes başvuruyu (definite object, accusative).