Hi

I wanna the meaning of "Bulunan" word in this sentence.

"2036 yılında Dünyaya çarpma olasılığı bulunan göktaşı"

how the sentence can be translated and why ?

I´m not sure how much Turkish you know, but here is my attempt to explain.

Bulmak = to find (verb)

Bulunmak = to be found (passive verb)

Verbs can also be used to make adjectives to describe nouns.

One way of doing this in Turkish, is with a relative clause.

The forms used can be -(y)an/en, -diği/- and -(y)acağ-/eceğ-

eg. Spor yapan insanlar = people who do sports

Oturan adam = the man who is sitting

bulunan göktaşı = the meteor/meteorite that is to be found  *see next post

gök (sky/heaven/celestial) + taş (stone/rock) = göktaşı (meteor/meteorite)

Now for the other parts of the sentence

2036 yılında = In the year of 2036

Dünya = Earth/our world,  Dünya´ya = to our Earth

çarpma = crash/impact 

olasılık = possibility/probability

çarpma olasılığı = the probability of an impact

So my interpretation of this ´partial´ sentence would be

The meteor that has the possibility of an impact with Earth in 2036 ...... and then I guess more of the sentence continues

Hope my explanation helped you understand

Thank you to Faruk & Erbab for correcting my error about ´bulunan´

Bulunan in this sentence means "have (or has)". The root is "bulunmak"

So the translation will be:

The meteor that has the possibility of crashing the Earth on 2036.

Thanks alot

Can you give me another example that come in the meaning of "has"

You can not use ´´to be found´´ in this sentence.

Another examples;

Sizde çekiç bulunur mu? = Çekiciniz var mı? = Do you have a hummer?

Gerçekleşme ihtimali bulunan bir olay = An event which has the possibility of happening.

Possiblely to happen 

Possiblely to happen