Dolmuş beklerken bir bisküvi daha yedim.

to eat

Breakdown of Dolmuş beklerken bir bisküvi daha yedim.

• daha: more
• beklemek: to wait
• -rken: while

Questions & Answers about Dolmuş beklerken bir bisküvi daha yedim.

Why is yedim at the end of the sentence?

Because Turkish normally puts the main verb at the end of the clause. A very common neutral order is:

time/context + object + verb

So:

Dolmuş beklerken = while waiting for the dolmuş
bir bisküvi daha = one more biscuit
yedim = I ate

This end-of-sentence verb placement is one of the biggest word-order differences from English.

What does beklerken mean, and what does -ken do?

-ken means while or when and links two actions happening at the same time.

So beklerken means while waiting / when I was waiting.

In this sentence, it shows that the eating happened during the waiting.

Why is it beklerken and not just bekleken?

Because -ken usually attaches to a verb form, not directly to the bare dictionary stem.

Here the form is:

bekler + ken → beklerken

This is the usual way to say while waiting. Historically it is related to bekler iken, which got shortened.

For learners, the important point is simply:

• beklemek = to wait
• beklerken = while waiting

Why is there no word for I in the sentence?