Breakdown of Aygıt dün aniden arızalandı.
dün
yesterday
aniden
suddenly
aygıt
device
arızalanmak
to break down / to malfunction (machines, vehicles)
Questions & Answers about Aygıt dün aniden arızalandı.
How is the verb arızalandı formed?
It comes from the noun arıza, meaning "fault," "defect," or "malfunction." The suffix -lan (which often means "to acquire the quality of") turns it into the intransitive verb arızalanmak (to become faulty / to break down). Finally, -dı is the simple past tense marker.
I usually hear cihaz for "device". Is aygıt different?
They are synonyms and are often interchangeable. Cihaz is an older Arabic loanword and is very common in everyday speech as well as set phrases (like medical devices). Aygıt is a Turkic word frequently used in modern computing, tech hardware, and scientific contexts.
Why does aniden (suddenly) end with the ablative "from" suffix -den?
In Turkish, adding the ablative suffix -den / -dan to certain adjectives or nouns is a standard way to create an adverb. Here, it attaches to ani (sudden) to mean "suddenly." You have seen this same pattern in words like birden (suddenly / all at once) and eskiden (formerly / in the past).
How would I use this lesson's grammar (bir türlü) to complain that the device "just wouldn't work" yesterday?