bilemedi

Bilemedi is a Turkish verb form meaning "did not know" or "couldn't know." It is used to indicate that a subject failed to know a fact or piece of information in the past. The form is the simple past negative of the verb bilmek, which means "to know," and it appears in both spoken and written Turkish.

Morphology and usage are straightforward in everyday Turkish. The root bil- carries the sense of knowledge, and the past negative suffix -medi attaches to form bilemedi, yielding "he/she/it did not know" or, with different subjects, "I did not know" (bilemedim) or "you did not know" (bilmedin). The exact subject influences the pronoun, while the core meaning remains the same: a lack of knowledge at a past time.

Bilemedi often appears in narratives, reports, and dialogues to convey uncertainty, ignorance, or a failure to learn about something. It can carry nuance from simple lack of knowledge to a sense of surprise or unavailability of information in a given moment.

Examples:

- Bu durumu kimse bilemedi. (No one could know this.)

- O, yeni kuralları bilemedi. (He couldn't know the new rules.)

- Dün gece olaya dair ayrıntıları bilemedim. (I did not know the details about the incident last night.)