heykeltıraş
noun C1- sculptor
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “my” ending is -ım.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: heykeltıraşında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: heykeltıraşıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Ancak bir metnin gerçek anlamda tekamül etmesi, yazarının onu defalarca bozup yeniden kurmasını, adeta acımasız bir heykeltıraş gibi yontarak fazlalıklarından arındırmasını gerektirir.
However, for a text to truly evolve requires its author to repeatedly dismantle and rebuild it, almost like a ruthless sculptor, carving it and purifying it of its excesses.
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