Edilmesidir

Edilmesidir is a Turkish grammatical term that refers to a specific nominalized passive construction. It is formed from the verb etmek (to do) in its passive stem edil-, combined with the nominalizing suffix -mesi and the copular suffix -dir, yielding a literal meaning of “it is the act of being done.” The resulting form functions as a predicative noun clause and can serve as a subject or complement in a sentence.

Usage and function: edilmesidir is used primarily in formal, analytical, or definitional Turkish to designate the abstract concept of an action being performed. In such contexts it points to the act itself rather than to a concrete occurrence, and it often appears within linguistic or legal-linguistic prose to discuss action in a theoretical sense.

Relation to related forms: The more common nominalization edilmesi (the act of being done) covers similar content but without the emphatic assertion that -dir conveys. The base verb form edilmek means “to be done,” and other verbs form analogous compounds (for example, yapılması from yapmak, meaning “the doing”). The choice between edilmesidir and edilmesi depends on the desired emphasis and the syntactic position in the sentence.

Examples and notes: edilmesidir can appear in definitional or expository sentences such as “Bu kuralın uygulanması edilmesidir,” intended to identify the act as the subject of discussion. The construction is relatively rare in everyday speech and is more typical of grammar discussions, formal writing, or analyses of Turkish syntax.

See also: Turkish grammar, nominalization, passive voice, -dir copula.