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Tren gelince önce ön vagona bindik, çünkü arka vagon çok doluydu.
Meaning
When the train arrived, we got into the front car first because the rear car was very full.
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Breakdown of Tren gelince önce ön vagona bindik, çünkü arka vagon çok doluydu.
olmak
to be
çok
very
gelmek
to come
çünkü
because
Questions & Answers about Tren gelince önce ön vagona bindik, çünkü arka vagon çok doluydu.
What does gelince mean, and how does the ending -ince work?
Gelince comes from gelmek = to come / to arrive.
The ending -ince / -ınca / -unca / -ünce usually means when, once, or upon doing something.
- gelmek → gelince = when it comes/came, when it arrived
- bitmek → bitince = when it finishes/finished
So Tren gelince means when the train arrived.
A useful point: -ince itself does not translate into one fixed English tense. The tense is understood from the whole sentence.
Why is it vagona bindik and not vagonu bindik?
Because binmek takes the dative case, not the direct object.
- vagona = to / onto the carriage
- vagonu would be the accusative, and that is not used with binmek
In Turkish, you board onto something:
- trene binmek = to get on the train
- otobüse binmek = to get on the bus
- arabaya binmek = to get in the car
So ön vagona bindik is the correct pattern.
Why are both önce and ön used? They look very similar.