"By whom were these rules assessed?"
Translation:Bu kurallar kim tarafından belirlendi?
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I am having a lot of trouble with the grammar here. The closest thing I can get it to translate to is, "Who from their side were these rules determined?" Clearly there is a gap to be bridged.
Wouldn't kimin tarafından make more sense? Like, "from whose side"?
And doesn't belirlenmek mean "to be determined"?
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kim tarafından is used interchangably with kimin tarafından. I guess it is because we say "benim tarafımdan, senin tarafından" etc but "Ahmet tarafından, Ayşe tarafından" etc.
belirlemek is both to assess and to determine
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That's also true for için, right? "Benim için," "Aysun için."
Is "kim için" interchangeable with "kimin için"?
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"Tarafından" is also used to denote the agent in a passive sentence, so "kim tarafından (Ahmet tarafından, benim tarafımdan)" are not "from whose (Ahmet's, my) side" but "by whom (Ahmet, me)".
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Neither, I think - I believe it should be benim tarafımdan (the -ım for "my" goes after taraf, the -dan for "from" stays the same). As Selcen also wrote above.
Thanks for spotting the mistake!
I've edited my comment.
(benim tarafından which I had previously written is also found on a Google search, though.)
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Please read the previous comments. Selcen already said above, "kim tarafından is used interchangably with kimin tarafından".