almak
verb A2- to take
- to buy
- to get, to obtain, to receive
- to receive (a radio signal)
- to collect (from someone) · Kapıcı, her ayın başında bizden aidatı alır., The doorman collects the monthly fee from us at the beginning of each month.
- to conquer
- to absorb, to have let in, to take on · Odanın biraz ışık alması için jaluzileri açtım., I opened the shutters to let some light in the room. · Tekne, kayaya çarpıp su almaya başladı., The boat hit a rock and began to take on water.
- to be exposed to · Bitki, fazla güneş aldığından solmuş., The plant wilted because it was exposed to too much sunlight.
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.
-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: alacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
This is one of the 13 one-syllable verbs that take -ir (al-, bil-, bul-, dur-, gel-, gör-, kal-, ol-, öl-, san-, ver-, var-, vur-): alır.
Words from it
Phrases
From the library
— Almadım vallahi!
— Ey, sen almadın, ben de almadım; ecinniler mi gelip aldı?
İçinden: "Görmeden aldım.
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