ermek
verb A2- to attain, achieve
- to reach, be long enough to reach
- to ripen, become ripe, mature
- to attain sainthood, to be spiritually enlightened, to reach spiritual perfection
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: ereceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: erer.
Words from it
From the library
Endüstriyel anlamda fiziksel olarak sona ermiş olsa da, Yeşilçam dönemi Türk kültür tarihinde silinmez bir iz bırakmayı ve kolektif hafızalara kazınmayı başarmıştır.
Even though it has physically ended in an industrial sense, the Yeşilçam era has succeeded in leaving an indelible mark on Turkish cultural history and being engraved in collective memories.
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