temenni
noun C1- An act of wishing for something to come true.
- A wish, desire, request.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in temennim.
The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: temennisinde. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: temennisinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: temennisiyle. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: temennisiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
Bak, bak, her gün bir omuz silkmekle geçen aşinalar şimdi kandillli temennâlarla yerlere kadar eğilerek:
— Efendim memuriyet-i cedîdenizde muvaffakiyetler temenni eder ve arz-ı tebrikat ederim.
Sevgiyle ve kelimelerin o bitmez tükenmez aydınlığıyla kalmanızı temenni eder, edebi çalışmalarınızda sonsuz bir zihin açıklığı ve sarsılmaz bir irade gücü dilerim.
I hope you stay with love and the inexhaustible light of words, and I wish you infinite mental clarity and an unshakable willpower in your literary works.
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