görevinde

Görevinde is a Turkish expression meaning being on duty or serving in one's post. It denotes that a person is currently performing their official responsibilities or is stationed at their assigned location. The form is built from the noun görev (duty, assignment) with the third-person possessive suffix -i to indicate “his/her/its duty” and the locative suffix -nde to express “in/at/on,” resulting in görevi + nde = görevinde. The phrase is most commonly used in formal, administrative, or journalistic contexts.

Usage and examples

Görevinde is typically used with a form of the verb to be, such as olmak or bulunmak, to describe the state of being on duty. Examples include: Polis memuru görevindedir (The police officer is on duty). Kamu görevlileri görevlerinde çalışmaya devam etti (Civil servants continued to work in their duties). In news and obituaries, the expression appears in the sense of “died in the line of duty,” as in görevinde hayatını kaybetti (died in the line of duty).

Related forms and alternatives

A closely related phrase is görev başında, which also conveys being at one’s post, often with a slightly more emphatic sense of being actively at work. Other related terms include görevli (duty officer or attendant) and göreviyle ilgili (related to his/her duties). Görev, the root word, is widely used in many compounds describing responsibility, assignment, or official function.