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Questions & Answers about Toplantı verimli geçti.
Does this mean “The meeting was productive” or “The meeting went productively”?
Both are acceptable translations. The Turkish literally says that the meeting went/passed productively, so the most idiomatic English is The meeting was productive or The meeting went well/productively. The verb geçti focuses on how the event unfolded.
Why use geçti here instead of a form of “to be,” like verimliydi?
Turkish commonly uses geçmek (to pass/go) to describe how events turned out: sınav iyi geçti (the exam went well), tatil güzel geçti (the vacation went nicely).
- Toplantı verimli geçti emphasizes the course/outcome of the meeting.
- Toplantı verimliydi simply ascribes the property “productive” to the meeting as a state. Both are fine; the first is the most common collocation.
What is the tense and person of geçti, and how is it formed?
- Root: geç- (pass/go)
- Past tense suffix: -DI (with vowel harmony and devoicing)
- Because ç is voiceless, -DI surfaces as -ti → geç-ti
- Person/number: 3rd person singular (no extra ending needed)
Meaning: “(it) went/passed.”
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