yan yana
adjective- side-by-side, adjacent
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Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in yan yanam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yan yanasında. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: yan yanasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yan yanasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: yan yanasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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Aynı ahşap banklarda, işe yetişmeye çalışan memurlarla sınava hazırlanan öğrenciler, pazardan dönen teyzelerle emekliler yan yana oturur.
On the same wooden benches sit, side by side, civil servants trying to get to work on time and students preparing for exams, aunties coming back from the market and retirees.
Evler yüksek bir tepenin üzerinde yan yana dururlar.
The houses stand side by side on a high hill.
İnsanlar yan yana dizilir ve birbirlerinin ellerini sıkıca tutarak çizgi oluştururlar.
People line up side by side and form a line by holding each other's hands tightly.
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