çalı
noun C1- thorny bush, bramble
- shrub, bush, undergrowth
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in çalım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: çalısında. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: çalısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: çalısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: çalısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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İhtiyar meşe ağaçlarının; nemnâk taşları örten kesif ve mütevahhiş çalılar üstüne zümridîn ve muhtez benekler hâlinde gölgeleri düşüyor, yeni çıkan narin ve şeffaf otlar çağlayanın muhrik ve muğfil ninnisiyle nazan bir hab-ı masum uyuyordu.
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