özveri
noun C1- self-sacrifice
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Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in özverim.
The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: özverisinde. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: özverisinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: özverisiyle. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: özverisiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
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Teknik imkansızlıklara ve yetersiz ekipmanlara rağmen, yılda yüzlerce filmin üretildiği bu yoğun sistemde, set çalışanları gece gündüz demeden büyük bir özveriyle görev yapıyordu.
Despite technical impossibilities and insufficient equipment, in this intense system where hundreds of films were produced a year, set workers were working day and night with great devotion.
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