donakalmak
verb- to stay catatonically, to be shocked and not be able to move
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: donakalacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Verbs of more than one syllable take -ir (-ır, -ur, -ür): donakalır.
From the library
Kemal Usta, gözlerinde tatlı bir parıltıyla şaşkınlıktan donakalmış olan Ayla'ya baktı ve sırrını açıkladı.
Master Kemal looked at Ayla, who was frozen in astonishment, with a sweet gleam in his eyes and revealed his secret.
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