buldu

Buldu is a Turkish verb form meaning “found” in English. It is the simple past tense of bulmak, the verb meaning to find or to discover. It is used to report a completed action of finding by a third-person subject.

Morphology and forms: The infinitive is bulmak, built from the root bul- with the infinitive suffix -mak. The past tense suffix is -du (with vowel harmony), yielding buldu for the third-person singular. Turkish verbs are conjugated for person, so other past-tense forms include buldum (I found), buldun (you found), bulduk (we found), buldunuz (you found), and buldular (they found).

Usage and examples: Buldu appears in sentences to indicate a specific discovery. Examples include: O anahtarını buldu. (He found his key.) Kayıp dosyayı nihayet buldu, (She finally found the missing file.) The form can be used with literal objects as well as in figurative contexts, such as finding a solution or a clue.

Relation to related terms: Buldu is part of the broader Turkish verb family formed from the root bul- with related words such as bulmak (to find) and bulunmak (to be found). It is a standard, neutral verb form used across formal and informal registers.