Gelebilen

Gelebilen is a Turkish linguistic term used to describe a participial adjective derived from the verb gelmek, meaning to come. It expresses that someone or something has the ability or possibility to come or arrive. In Turkish grammar, geleBilen is commonly used in noun phrases or relative clauses to specify who can come or who is capable of coming.

Its formation comes from the verb stem gel- combined with the potential suffix -ebil- and the present-participle suffix -en, yielding gel(e)bil(en). The standard spelling is gelebilen, with vowel harmony applying to the suffixes. As an adjective, geleBilen precedes the noun it modifies or appears in a predicate with that noun, and it does not inflect for number or gender.

Gelebilen is often used in contexts that describe attendees, participants, or objects capable of arriving. Examples include: “Gelebilen kimse toplantıya katılabilir” (Anyone who can come may attend the meeting) and “Gelebilen öğrenciler sınava katılabilir” (Students who can come may participate in the exam). It can also appear in plural forms with the noun it modifies, such as “gelebilen kişiler” (the people who can come).

Related forms include geleBilecek, the future potential form meaning will be able to come, and gelebilirse, the conditional meaning if one can come. The negative form is gelemeyen, meaning not able to come. Gelebilen is a productive part of Turkish grammar for expressing capability in descriptive and relative-clause contexts.

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