dere
noun B2- creek, small river
- glen, basin, ravine (a long area of relatively low elevation, often having a stream bed at the bottom, surrounded by mountains or hills, usually smaller than a valley)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in derem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: deresinde. 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: deresinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: deresiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: deresiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
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Phrases
From the library
## Kaşağı
Ahırın avlusunda oynarken aşağıda, gümüş söğütler altında görünmeyen derenin hazin şırıltısını işitirdik.
Hasan'la Dadaruh dere kenarına inmişlerdi.
Derenin kenarı düz bir çimenlikti.
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