postacı
noun C1- mailman, postman, someone who delivers or collects mail or post
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in postacım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: postacısında. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: postacısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: postacısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: postacısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Benim adım Hasan ve dedem eski bir postacı.
My name is Hasan and my grandfather is a retired mailman.
Postacının yolunu gözlemek, zarfı ilk gördüğümüz an yaşanan o tarifsiz sevinç, modern çağın hızında ne yazık ki kaybolmaya yüz tuttu.
Watching the road for the postman, that indescribable joy experienced the moment we first saw the envelope, has unfortunately begun to disappear in the speed of the modern age.
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