Learn Turkish: İstediğin gibi sinemaya gitmek için sözleştik. - We arranged to go to the cinema just as you wanted.

This uses the lesson's pattern: verb + -dik + possessive + gibi. The verb is iste (want). The -dik suffix turns it into a describing word, and the possessive -in makes it "that you want" (softening the k to ğ). Adding gibi (as/like) forms the phrase "as you wanted" or "in the way that you wanted".

Why isn't there a past tense marker on istediğin if the translation says "wanted"?

The -dik suffix is quite flexible and generally covers both present and past meanings. It gets its time frame from the context of the main sentence. Because the main verb sözleştik is past tense, we naturally understand istediğin gibi as "as you wanted" rather than "as you want".

Where does the verb sözleştik (we arranged) come from?

It comes from the noun söz, which means "word" or "promise". The suffix -leş is used to create verbs that involve two or more people doing something together (reciprocal action). So, sözleşmek literally means "to give each other one's word", which translates nicely to "to agree" or "to make an arrangement". The -ti and -k at the end mean "we did this in the past".

Why use the dictionary form gitmek before için?