Breakdown of Sektörde çalışmış olan elemanlar bu kriterleri iyi bilir.
bu
this
iyi
good
çalışmak
to work / to study
olmak
to be
bilmek
to know
kriter
criterion
sektör
sector
eleman
personnel / staff member (individual)
Questions & Answers about Sektörde çalışmış olan elemanlar bu kriterleri iyi bilir.
Why do we use çalışmış olan here instead of just çalışan?
Using çalışan would mean 'the staff members who work' or 'who are working'. Adding -mIş to the verb and following it with olan explicitly puts the relative clause in the past or perfect tense. It emphasizes their prior experience: 'the staff members who have worked'.
Why is it bu kriterleri with an -i at the end, rather than just bu kriterler?
Because 'these criteria' is the specific direct object of the transitive verb bilir (know). The demonstrative word bu makes the object specific, which means the noun must take the accusative case suffix -(y)I.
Isn't eleman the word for a chemical or physical 'element'?
It is, but in modern Turkish business and daily life, eleman is the most standard word for 'staff member', 'employee', or 'personnel'. You will very frequently see signs saying 'Eleman aranıyor' (Staff wanted) in shop windows.
Why does the sentence end with the aorist tense bilir instead of the present continuous biliyor?
The aorist (-Ir) is used here because the sentence states a general, timeless fact. It means 'as a rule, experienced staff know this,' rather than describing a specific group of people knowing something right at this exact moment.
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