nebze
noun C1- ounce, modicum, smidgen (a very small quantity or amount)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in nebzem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: nebzesinde. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: nebzesinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: nebzesiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: nebzesiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
Yaşlı bekçinin anlattığı eski İstanbul hikayeleri, Defne'nin zihninde canlanıyor ve modern dünyanın getirdiği stresi bir nebze olsun hafifletiyordu.
The old Istanbul stories told by the elderly watchman were coming alive in Defne's mind and alleviating the stress brought by the modern world, if only a little.
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