Word
İşçiler ürünleri paketleyince iş bitiyor.
Meaning
When the workers package the products, the work finishes.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of İşçiler ürünleri paketleyince iş bitiyor.
iş
work
bitmek
to finish / to end
işçi
worker
ürün
product
Questions & Answers about İşçiler ürünleri paketleyince iş bitiyor.
How is paketleyince formed, and why is there a y in the middle?
This word is made from the verb root paketle (to package) plus the temporal suffix -ince, which means "when" or "as soon as". Because paketle ends in a vowel, we need to use the buffer letter y before adding a suffix that starts with a vowel. This makes it smoothly connect as paketleyince.
Why does the sentence use ürünleri instead of just ürünler?
Ürünler simply means "products". Adding the accusative case suffix -i turns it into ürünleri, which means "the products". We use this case because the products are the specific direct objects receiving the action of being packaged.
The English translation uses the simple present tense ("finishes"), but bitiyor is present continuous. Why?
In English, we usually use the simple present tense for general rules, routines, or "if X, then Y" statements. In Turkish, however, the present continuous tense (-iyor) is very commonly used for these kinds of everyday facts or immediate sequences, even though its literal translation is closer to "is finishing".
Can the two parts of an -ince sentence have different subjects?