Breakdown of Yaralı kadın bayılır bayılmaz doktorlar müdahale etmek için koştu.
doktor
doctor
kadın
woman
koşmak
to run
için
for
Questions & Answers about Yaralı kadın bayılır bayılmaz doktorlar müdahale etmek için koştu.
How does bayılır bayılmaz translate to 'as soon as she fainted'?
This is the exact grammar for 'as soon as' in Turkish. You take a verb, put it in the positive aorist (simple present) tense (bayılır), and immediately repeat it in the negative aorist tense (bayılmaz). Even though the English translation says 'fainted' because the main action happened in the past (koştu), the -ır -maz structure itself does not change to match the past tense.
Does the -ır -maz structure take personal endings to show who is fainting?
No, this specific double-verb structure is frozen and never takes personal endings. We know the woman is the one fainting here simply because the subject yaralı kadın (injured woman) is placed before bayılır bayılmaz.
Why do we use the full dictionary form müdahale etmek before için?
When you want to express 'in order to' do an action, you use the infinitive verb (the form ending in -mak or -mek) followed by için. So müdahale etmek için simply means 'in order to intervene'.
How is the word yaralı (injured) built?
It comes from the noun yara, which means 'wound' or 'injury'. By adding the suffix -lı, which means 'with' or 'having', we get yaralı, meaning 'wounded' or 'injured'.