Word
Mürekkep kalmadı.
Meaning
There is no ink left.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Mürekkep kalmadı.
What does kalmadı literally mean, and how is it built?
- Root: kal- = remain, be left, stay.
- Negation: -ma- = not.
- Past tense: -dı = past (with zero 3rd‑person ending). So kal-ma-dı literally means did not remain → idiomatically, none is left.
Why is the past tense (-dı) used if we’re describing a current situation?
Turkish often uses the simple past to signal a new state that has just resulted from a completed event (resultative past). Mürekkep kalmadı implies “the situation has reached the point where no ink remains now.”
Who is the subject here? Why isn’t there any case ending?
Mürekkep (ink) is the subject in the basic/nominative form. Kalmak is intransitive (“to remain”), so there’s no object and no accusative. The sentence is literally “Ink did-not-remain.”
Where are the English articles like “the,” “a,” or words like “any/some”?
Turkish has no articles. Context supplies definiteness. To express “any/some,” Turkish commonly uses:
- hiç for “(not) any/at all” in negatives: Hiç mürekkep kalmadı.
- biraz for “some”: Biraz mürekkep kaldı.
How is Mürekkep kalmadı different from Mürekkep yok?