Breakdown of Provaya geldiğin gün yönetmen sesi kıstığında oyuncular fısıldadı.
gelmek
to come
gün
day
ses
voice / sound
oyuncu
actor / player
fısıldamak
to whisper
yönetmen
director
kısmak
to dim / to turn down
prova
rehearsal
Questions & Answers about Provaya geldiğin gün yönetmen sesi kıstığında oyuncular fısıldadı.
How exactly is kıstığında formed to mean 'when ... turned down'?
The root is kıs- (to turn down/reduce). We add the participle -tık. The k softens to ğ because it is followed by a vowel. Then we add -ı, the third-person possessive ending (meaning 'his/her' for the director). Finally, the locative suffix -nda ('at/in') is attached. Literally, it translates to 'at the time of his turning down'.
Why does the sentence use geldiğin gün instead of geldiğinde?
Both use the -dIk suffix, but for different jobs. If you just wanted to say 'When you came', you would use the temporal clause geldiğinde. However, this sentence specifically says 'the day you came'. To attach the action to the noun gün (day), we use the relative clause form geldiğin ('that you came') acting as an adjective to modify the day.
Why is there an -i on sesi?
ses means 'sound' or 'volume'. The -i is the specific accusative case suffix. It shows that sesi is the direct object of the action kıstığında. The director turned down the specific volume in the room, so it requires the accusative marker.
Since oyuncular (actors) is plural, why isn't the verb pluralized as fısıldadılar?
In Turkish, when a plural subject is explicitly stated in the sentence (like oyuncular), adding the plural suffix -lar to the verb is completely optional for human subjects. Leaving it as fısıldadı is perfectly grammatical and very natural.
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