İmleç donup duruyordu, ama fareyi yeniden bağlayınca sorun düzeldi.

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Breakdown of İmleç donup duruyordu, ama fareyi yeniden bağlayınca sorun düzeldi.

• sorun: the problem
• yeniden: again
• -ınca: when

Questions & Answers about İmleç donup duruyordu, ama fareyi yeniden bağlayınca sorun düzeldi.

What does donup duruyordu mean here? Why are there two verb-like parts?

Donup duruyordu is a common Turkish way of saying that something kept freezing or was just sitting there frozen.

It is made of:

• donup = from donmak (to freeze), here in a linking form
• duruyordu = from durmak (to stand / stay / keep doing), in the past continuous

Together, this structure often gives the sense of:

• kept doing X
• continued to be in X state
• was stuck doing X

So İmleç donup duruyordu means something like:

• The cursor kept freezing
• The cursor was constantly freezing
• The cursor would just freeze and stay that way

Why is it donup, not just donuyordu?

Because -Ip / -up / -üp / -ıp can link one verb to another, and in this kind of pattern it adds a nuance that English often expresses with kept, went and, or stayed.

Compare:

• donuyordu = it was freezing
• donup duruyordu = it kept freezing / it would freeze and stay frozen

So donup duruyordu is stronger and more descriptive than plain donuyordu. It suggests repeated or annoying persistence.

The -up form here follows vowel harmony:

• from don- → donup

What exactly does add to the meaning?