tasfiye
noun B2- An act of clarifying, sorting out, refining.
- Linguistic purism.
- Liquidation of a company's assets after its bankruptcy.
- Mass layoffs due to various reasons.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in tasfiyem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tasfiyesinde. 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: tasfiyesinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tasfiyesiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: tasfiyesiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
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