bırakmak
verb A1- to let go, release, relinquish
- to abandon, to leave
- to leave, to cause or allow something to remain as available
- to put, put down; to postpone, put off
- to quit, to leave, to stop using · sosyal medyayı bırakmak, to quit social media · sigarayı bırakmak, to quit smoking
- to let, to allow · bırak konuşsun, let him speak
- to leave, to hand over · işi başkasına bırakmak, to leave the job for someone else
- to leave, to drop, to deliver, to bring someone to a place · onu eve bıraktı, she brought him home
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.
After a voiceless consonant (f, s, t, k, ç, ş, h, p) the d of -di becomes t: bıraktı.
-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: bırakacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Verbs of more than one syllable take -ir (-ır, -ur, -ür): bırakır.
Phrases
From the library
Amma yine yakamı bırakmadı.
Yüzde üçyüz kâr bırakacak bir ticaret yeri...
Ben kimsede bir şeyimi bırakmam.
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