sallamak
verb B2- To move regularly in the same direction; to swing, to rock, to shake. · Arık, zayıf bir buzağı kuyruğunu sallayarak gidiyordu., A thin calf was walking around wagging its tail.
- To jerk, to jolt.
- To make up, to think up, to fabricate, to take a stab in the dark.
- To constantly postpone a task or responsibility; to buy time, to drag one's feet, to procrastinate
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.
A stem ending in a vowel drops it before -iyor: salla- → sallıyor.
-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: sallayacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
After a vowel, the aorist is just -r: sallar.
From the library
Başımı salladım.
Başını salladı:
— İşte riyâziyeye çalışmamanın cezası!
— Kuyruğunu sallıyor mu?
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