Sürdürdüler

Sürdürdüler is a Turkish verb form meaning “they continued” or “they sustained.” It is the third-person plural past tense of the verb sürdürmek, which means to maintain, to keep up, or to carry on. The form is created from the stem sürdür-, with the past tense marker and the plural subject marker, yielding the sentence-ending -düler. This construction indicates that multiple subjects performed a continuing action in the past.

In use, sürdürdüler is applied when describing that a group of people kept up an activity, kept maintaining something, or persisted with a course of action over a period in the past. It often conveys persistence or ongoing effort, such as continuing a project, maintaining a policy, or keeping up a routine through difficulties.

Examples:

- Ekip zor koşullara rağmen çalışmayı sürdürdüler. (The team continued the work despite difficult conditions.)

- Yetkililer kısıtlamalara rağmen programı sürdürdüler. (The officials continued the program despite the restrictions.)

- Bakım çalışmalarını sürdürdüler ve sorunları gidermeye odaklandılar. (They continued the maintenance work and focused on solving the issues.)

Related forms include sürdürürler (present tense, they continue) and sürdürdü (past tense, he/she/it continued) among others. Sürdürdüler is typically used in narrative or descriptive past contexts to indicate that a group maintained an action over a period.