Açıklama hatanın bilindiğini ima ediyor.

A natural breakdown is:

• Açıklama = explanation, statement
• hatanın = of the error
• bilindiğini = that it is known
• ima ediyor = implies, is implying

So the structure is:

• Açıklama → subject
• hatanın bilindiğini → object
• ima ediyor → main verb

Very literally, it is something like:

• The explanation implies the error’s being known

More natural English is the meaning you were already given.

Because this sentence contains an embedded clause, and in this kind of Turkish structure the subject of the embedded clause usually takes the genitive ending.

Here, the embedded idea is:

• the error is known

In Turkish, with the -DIK type of clause, the subject is marked like this:

• hata → error
• hatanın → of the error

So hatanın bilindiği literally works like:

• the error’s being known
• or more naturally, that the error is known

This is a very common pattern in Turkish:

• Ali’nin geldiğini biliyorum = I know that Ali came / has come
• hatanın bilindiğini ima ediyor = it implies that the error is known

It is a compact grammatical form made of several parts:

• bil- = know
• bilin- = be known
• -dik / -diğ- = a clause-forming suffix, often used for that ...
• -i = 3rd person possessive marker
• -ni = accusative marker

So:

• bilin-diğ-i-ni

This whole form means something like:

• that it is known

A few important notes:

1. bilin- is the passive form of bilmek

   • bilmek = to know
   • bilinmek = to be known

2. The k in -dik changes to ğ before a vowel:

   • -dik + i → -diği

3. The ending here does not simply mean past tense, even though it looks a bit like -di

   • In this sentence, it is mainly part of a subordinate clause pattern

Because Turkish often expresses that-clauses with suffixes instead of a separate word.

English says:

• The explanation implies that the error is known

Turkish turns the error is known into a noun-like clause:

• hatanın bilindiği

Then, because that clause is the object of ima ediyor, it becomes:

• hatanın bilindiğini

So the meaning of English that is built into this clause structure, especially the -DIK pattern.

This is one of the trickier features of Turkish subordinate clauses.

In -DIK clauses, Turkish typically uses:

• a genitive subject
• plus a possessive ending on the verbal form

So you get a pattern like:

• hata → base noun
• hatanın → genitive subject
• bilindiği → verb form with 3rd person singular possessive marking

This does not mean real possession in the English sense. It is just how Turkish grammatically packages this kind of clause.

You can think of it as a set pattern:

• X’in Y-diği = that X Y’s / the fact that X Y’s

Here:

• hatanın bilindiği = that the error is known

Because it is the direct object of ima etmek.

The main verb is:

• ima etmek = to imply

What does the explanation imply?

• hatanın bilindiğini

So that entire embedded clause is treated like a noun phrase and takes the accusative.

You can compare:

• Bunu ima ediyor = It implies this
• Hatanın bilindiğini ima ediyor = It implies that the error is known

The final -ni comes after the 3rd person possessive form, so it appears as:

• bilindiği + ni → bilindiğini

Because the meaning is the error is known, not someone knows the error.

Compare:

• hatanın bilindiğini = that the error is known
• birinin hatayı bildiğini = that someone knows the error

These are different structures:

1. Passive

   • hatanın bilindiğini
   • focus on the error as something known

2. Active

   • birinin hatayı bildiğini
   • focus on a person who knows the error

So the passive is the right choice if the intended meaning is general and agentless.

Because ima etmek is a very common Turkish compound verb pattern:

• a noun or borrowed word
• plus etmek

Here:

• ima = implication, hint
• etmek = to do, to make

Together:

• ima etmek = to imply

This is extremely common in Turkish. Similar examples are:

• yardım etmek = to help
• fark etmek = to notice
• kontrol etmek = to check

Only etmek is conjugated:

• ima ediyor
• ima etti
• ima edecek

Both are possible in Turkish, but they can feel slightly different.

• ima ediyor often sounds like is implying or implies in the present context
• ima eder can sound more general, habitual, or formal: implies / would imply

In many modern Turkish sentences, the -yor form is very natural even where English uses a simple present.

So:

• Açıklama hatanın bilindiğini ima ediyor = very natural
• Açıklama hatanın bilindiğini ima eder = also possible, but more formal or abstract in tone

Yes. This is normal Turkish word order.

Turkish usually places the verb at the end, so:

• Açıklama = subject
• hatanın bilindiğini = object
• ima ediyor = verb

That gives:

• Açıklama hatanın bilindiğini ima ediyor.

This is a standard subject + object + verb pattern.

Turkish word order is flexible, but the version here is neutral and natural.

In this sentence, it most naturally means the error, or at least a specific error already understood from context.

Turkish does not have articles like the and a in the same way English does, so definiteness is often understood from:

• context
• case marking
• structure

Because hatanın is in a genitive-marked embedded clause, it usually sounds specific rather than random.

So English will normally translate it as:

• the error

A useful literal reading is:

• The explanation implies the error’s being known

That is not natural English, but it helps you see the Turkish structure:

• Açıklama = the explanation
• hatanın bilindiğini = the error’s being known / that the error is known
• ima ediyor = implies

If you understand that Turkish often turns whole clauses into noun-like objects, this sentence becomes much easier to parse.