saf
adjective- pure
- naive, gullible
- bona fide (acting in good faith)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “my” ending is -ım.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: safında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: safıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
From the library
Hoca ise kimi fıkrada eşeğine ters binen bir saf, kimi fıkrada da tek cümleyle herkesi susturan bir bilgedir.
Hoca himself, for his part, is in some anecdotes a simpleton who rides his donkey backward, and in others a sage who silences everyone with a single sentence.
Kütüphanenin loş ışıkları altında kurulan bu dostluk, yaşın ve konumun ötesinde, sadece insan olmanın getirdiği saf bir iletişime dayanıyordu.
This friendship, formed under the dim lights of the library, was based on a pure communication brought by simply being human, beyond age and position.
Garın yüksek tavanlı bekleme salonu, kavuşmaların coşkusuyla ayrılıkların sessiz gözyaşlarını aynı anda barındıran, insan duygularının en saf halini yansıtan bir sahneydi.
The high-ceilinged waiting hall of the station was a stage reflecting the purest form of human emotions, harboring the enthusiasm of reunions and the silent tears of separations at the same time.
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