fıkra
noun B2- anecdote; short piece of writing
- paragraph
- joke
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in fıkram.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: fıkrasında. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: fıkrasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: fıkrasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: fıkrasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Yüzyıllardır dilden dile dolaşan Nasreddin Hoca fıkralarına bugün hâlâ gülüyorsak, bunun sırrı acaba nerede aranmalıdır?
If we still laugh today at the Nasreddin Hoca anecdotes that have passed from tongue to tongue for centuries, where, one wonders, should we look for the secret of it?
Akla ilk gelen cevap, fıkraların olağanüstü kısalığıdır: Çoğu, birkaç cümlelik bir durumla açılır ve tek bir nükteyle kapanır.
The first answer that comes to mind is the anecdotes’ extraordinary brevity: most of them open with a situation a few sentences long and close with a single witticism.
Hoca'nın cevabı ise fıkranın bütün yükünü taşır: Kazanın doğurduğuna inanan, öldüğüne neden inanmasın?
Hoca’s answer, though, carries the whole weight of the anecdote: whoever believed the cauldron had given birth, why should they not believe it has died?
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