bozuntu
noun C1- Remnants of something broken; scrap, bits and pieces.
- Something that is no longer used for its original purpose due to deterioration, neglect or being substituted for something else; formerly, previously, once. · Maliye teşkilatı, apartman bozuntusu bir binada hizmet veriyor., The finance agency is operating out of a building, formerly an apartment block. · Bir ahır bozuntusu olan köy okulu binası onarıldı, sıtma kaynağı bataklık kurutuldu., The village school building, once a barn, was repaired, the malaria swamp was dried up.
- Someone or something that does not possess the qualities they are supposed to, a bad example of what they are supposed to be; a sorry or poor excuse for something, a travesty of something. · Çık git buradan tamirci bozuntusu!, Get out of here you sorry excuse for a mechanic! · İstasyona vardığımızda tozlu topraklı bir yol bozuntusu karşılamıştı bizi., When we got to the station, we were greeted with a dusty, dirty travesty of a road.
- Being befuddled, flabbergasted, nonplussed.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in bozuntum.
The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: bozuntusunda. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -su. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: bozuntusunda. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: bozuntusuyla. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -su. After a vowel, y joins the ending: bozuntusuyla. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Hoca hiç bozuntuya vermeden ve hafifçe gülümseyerek etrafındaki kalabalığa uzun uzun baktı.
The Hodja, without showing any dismay and smiling slightly, looked long and hard at the crowd around him.
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