savmak
verb- to fend off, to strike away · uçaksavar, anti-aircraft artillery
- to get rid (of someone or something)
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Tap for its suffix chain savfend off
ıyorpresent continuous
umI
The 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.
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dıpast
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
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acağfuture (k → ğ)
ımI
-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: savacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
savfend off
araorist · habit
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: savar.
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