tencere
noun C1- A deep cooking pot, usually metallic.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in tencerem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tenceresinde. 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: tenceresinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tenceresiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: tenceresiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
Komşu kazanın içinde küçük bir tencere görünce çok şaşırmış.
When the neighbor saw a small pan inside the pot, he was very surprised.
Komşu: Hocam, bu küçük tencere de ne?
Neighbor: Hoca, what on earth is this little pan?
Komşu içinden gülmüş ama tencereyi de sevinçle almış.
The neighbor laughed to himself, but he gladly took the pan too.
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