durduruyor

Durduruyor is a Turkish verb form that translates roughly as “is stopping” or “stops” in the present continuous aspect. It represents the third-person singular form of the causative verb durdurmak, which means to stop something or to halt an action. The form signals an ongoing action performed by a subject toward a direct object.

Morphology and construction: durdurmak is built on the stem durdur- (derived from the intransitive dur- “to stop/stand” with a causative suffix) and the present continuous ending -uyor. When combined, the result is durduruyor, used for he/she/it stopping something in the present. Turkish present continuous forms require a subject and typically a direct object in the accusative case for transitive use, as in Polis arabayı durduruyor (The police are stopping the car).

Usage and examples: Durduruyor is transitive and common in reporting ongoing stopping actions by agents such as authorities, organizations, or individuals. Examples include:

- Polis arabayı durduruyor. (The police are stopping the car.)

- Şirket bu projeyi durduruyor. (The company is stopping this project.)

- O, akışı durduruyor. (He/She is stopping the flow.)

Related forms and notes: The verb form has corresponding persons and numbers: durduruyorlar (they are stopping), durdurmadıkları (that they are not stopping), and other tenses such as durdurdu (stopped) or durduracaklar (will stop). The negative present continuous is durdurmuyor, while the passive or causative variants are built with the same durdur- stem plus appropriate affixes. Durduruyor appears in neutral descriptive contexts and is a standard component of Turkish transitive causative constructions.