"Sanırım biri masayı silmiş."

Translation: I guess someone wiped the table.

[yusuf1653]

why not "had wiped"? because there is "-miş" so we do not know who wiped the table.

[AlexinNotTurkey]

"had wiped' is silmişti :)

[Ektoraskan]

Adding to this,

Native speakers of Turkish, when translating a sentence to English, seem to confuse "mişli geçmiş zaman" (yapmış) and "mişli geçmiş zamanın hikâyesi" (yapmıştı); and only the second one is translatable with a past perfect.

"Silmişti" can be translated as "he had wiped".

"Silmiş" can be translated as "he wiped", "apparently he wiped", "as far as I've heard, he wiped", "I've been told that he wiped" and so on, depending on the context.

[RustyBucket16]

i guess is american english i think is english english

[yusuf1653]

No, both phrases are used in both versions.

[HamishCJ]

No, very few Brits would say "I guess" for past events.

[Eva242549]

We Brits might say "I suppose," I suppose, instead of "I guess"?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

This is American English. According to British English, you have to use the present perfect tense (which is also fine in American English). We accept both :)

[MrHilmiNevzat]

"Sanırım biri masayı silmiş."
Translation: I guess someone wiped the table.

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I think someone wiped the table.

Correct other English answer accepted by Duo.