This is the 10468th most frequent Turkish word.
boşanmıştı
"Boşanmıştı" means "he/she/it had divorced."
The word 'boşanmıştı' is used here in the past perfect tense to indicate that Ali's divorce occurred prior to another time in the past.
Ali uzun süredir evliydi, ancak geçen yıl eşinden boşanmıştı.
Ali had been married for a long time, but he divorced his spouse last year.
'Boşanmıştı' represents an immediate past description of a finalized divorce event which provides background information in the sentence.
Boşanmıştı, çünkü artık anlaşamıyorlardı.
They had divorced because they could no longer get along.
Here, 'boşanmıştı' conveys a hypothetical or described instance of the divorce action seen in past discussions.