nostalji
noun C1- nostalgia
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Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in nostaljim.
The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: nostaljisinde. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: nostaljisinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: nostaljisiyle. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: nostaljisiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
Acaba insanın doğup büyüdüğü topraklara dönme isteği sadece romantikleştirilmiş bir nostalji mi, yoksa göz ardı edilemeyecek kadar temel bir duygusal ihtiyaç mı?
I wonder if a person's desire to return to the lands where they were born and raised is just a romanticized nostalgia, or a fundamental emotional need that cannot be ignored?
Yabancı ülkelerde paralı asker olarak görev yapan gençlerin memleketlerine duydukları şiddetli özlemi tanımlamak için, eve dönüş ve acı kelimelerinin birleşmesiyle nostalji sözcüğünü türetmiştir.
To describe the intense longing felt for their homelands by youths serving as mercenaries in foreign countries, he coined the word nostalgia by combining the words for return home and pain.
On dokuzuncu yüzyıla gelindiğinde nostalji, sadece uzaklardaki bir coğrafyaya duyulan mekânsal bir özlem olmaktan çıkmış, tamamen zamanın kendisine duyulan bir hasrete dönüşmüştü.
By the nineteenth century, nostalgia had ceased to be merely a spatial longing for a distant geography and had completely transformed into a yearning for time itself.
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