deitirdik

Deitirdik is a term encountered in Turkish-language contexts that appears to represent the past tense first-person plural form of a verb meaning to dethrone or depose someone from power. The root verb deitirmek is not common in standard modern Turkish; the hypothetical infinitive form would be deitirmek, a causative construction that would yield the sense of causing someone to be dethroned. In contemporary Turkish, more common expressions for unseating a ruler include tahttan indirmek or görevden almak, so deitirdik is rare and mostly found in linguistic discussions or stylistic texts.

Usage of deitirdik is largely limited to discussions of Turkish morphology or historical narratives where a ruler is described as having been removed from power. In academic writing on grammar, deitirdik can be cited as an example of a potential causative past tense form, illustrating how Turkish verbs can combine causative roots with tense suffixes. In everyday language and most historical prose, authors typically use standard phrases such as tahttan indirmek to convey the same idea.

See also

Turkish language; Turkish grammar; tahttan indirmek; görevden almak.

Notes

Because deitirdik is not widely attested in standard Turkish usage, its interpretation depends on context and the assumed infinitive deitirmek. More common equivalents exist for describing political change, and deitirdik is primarily of interest to students of Turkish morphology or historical linguistics.