bulundur

Bulundur is a Turkish verb stem that appears in the causative verb bulundurmak, meaning to cause someone to have, to keep, or to retain something. The core notion conveyed by bulundur is possession or availability—having an item, document, or resource on hand for use or reference. In usage, bulundur is typically encountered as part of the larger verb bulundurmak, rather than as a standalone verb, and it functions within Turkish’s agglutinative system to express tense, aspect, mood, and voice through standard suffixation.

In practice, bulundur serves in formal and administrative language to denote the obligation or expectation to keep something available. The stem can be extended with Turkish derivational and inflectional suffixes to form phrases and subordinate clauses. Common constructions include passive and nominalized forms such as bulundurulması (the act of keeping/being kept) and bulundurulması gereken (that which must be kept). These forms are frequently found in legal, bureaucratic, or regulatory texts where possession and retention of documents, equipment, or records are important.

Examples illustrate its typical role within Turkish sentences. Bu evraklar bulundurulmalı means The documents must be kept on file. Şirket gerekli ekipmanı bulundurmalıdır means The company must keep the necessary equipment. Such uses highlight bulundur’s function as a mechanism to express responsibility for maintaining or retaining specified items.

See also: bulundurmak, Turkish grammar, causative verbs.