çekinmek
verb B2- to hesitate to do, to hold back
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: çekineceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Verbs of more than one syllable take -ir (-ır, -ur, -ür): çekinir.
From the library
Mahalledeki diğer çocuklar da bu huysuz ihtiyardan çekiniyor, onunla göz göze gelmemeye çalışıyorlardı.
The other children in the neighborhood were also wary of this grumpy old man and tried not to make eye contact with him.
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