No. 24 in Turkish
geldi
"Gelidi" translates to "came" in English.
In a sentence
Yusuf dün akşam sinemadan geldi.
Yusuf came back from the cinema last night.
Here, 'geldi' is used as the simple past tense of the verb 'gelmek', meaning 'to come', and it refers to an action completed in the past.
Toplantıya tam zamanında geldi.
He arrived at the meeting just in time.
In this instance, 'geldi' still represents the simple past tense, conveying the successful occurrence of the completed action of reaching the meeting on time.
Tatillerde hep bizim köye gelirdi, bu kez gelmedi.
He always used to come to our village during holidays; this time he didn’t.
Although 'gelmedi' is used here for past negation, 'gelirdi' appears first as a form of past habitual tense, reflecting a repeated action in the past habitually happening, showing the versatile usage of forms derived from 'gelmek'.
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