silmek
verb B1- to wipe, wipe up, wipe away
- to rub sth. on, spread something on/over; to smear sth. on
- to clean, sweep, rub, rub off, furbish
- to erase, rub out
- to delete, uninstall
- to eat up every morsel of
- to destroy, sweep everything away; to make a clean sweep of, get rid of, rule out
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe stem, then -iyor, then a person ending. The first vowel of -iyor follows vowel harmony (geliyor, alıyor, okuyor, görüyor), but -yor never changes, so the person endings after it are always back: -um, -sun, -uz.
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
-ecek after a front vowel, -acak after a back one. After a stem ending in a vowel, a buffer y joins them: başlayacak.
k becomes ğ before a vowel: sileceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: siler.
From the library
Bu tesellî yetişir;
Şu cedel-gâh-ı mukassîde bütün hüsrânla,
Bütün âlâm u fecâyile geçen günlerimin
İki üç katredir ancak silecek mâtemini.
Tanpınar'ın sık sık başvurduğu “değişme içinde devam” düşüncesi de tam olarak bunu anlatır: ne geçmişte donup kalmak ne de onu bütünüyle silmek.
The idea of "continuity within change", to which Tanpınar often turned, says exactly this: neither freezing in the past nor erasing it entirely.
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