tutuşmak
verb C1- to hold
- to catch fire
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe stem, then -iyor, then a person ending. The first vowel of -iyor follows vowel harmony (geliyor, alıyor, okuyor, görüyor), but -yor never changes, so the person endings after it are always back: -um, -sun, -uz.
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
After a voiceless consonant (f, s, t, k, ç, ş, h, p) the d of -di becomes t: tutuştu.
-ecek after a front vowel, -acak after a back one. After a stem ending in a vowel, a buffer y joins them: başlayacak.
k becomes ğ before a vowel: tutuşacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Verbs of more than one syllable take -ir (-ır, -ur, -ür): tutuşur.
From the library
Kemençe çalarken herkes el ele tutuşur ve horon teper.
While the kemençe plays, everyone joins hands and dances the horon.
Bugün modern çağın insanları olarak hepimiz, zaman zaman kendi içimizdeki o sessiz memlekete dönme arzusuyla yanıp tutuşuyor, yitirilmiş zamanların yankılarını kalbimizin en derinlerinde hissediyoruz.
Today, as people of the modern age, we all burn with the desire to return to that silent homeland within ourselves from time to time, and we feel the echoes of lost times in the deepest parts of our hearts.
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