tatlı su
noun- fresh water
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in tatlı sum.
The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tatlı susunda. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -su. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: tatlı susunda. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tatlı susuyla. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -su. After a vowel, y joins the ending: tatlı susuyla. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Karadeniz'e Tuna, Dinyeper ve Dinyester gibi büyük nehirler dökülür; üstelik bu nehirlerin ve yağmurların getirdiği tatlı su, güneşin buharlaştırdığından fazladır.
Great rivers such as the Danube, the Dnieper and the Dniester flow into the Black Sea; moreover, the fresh water these rivers and the rain bring is more than what the sun evaporates.
Ortasından bir bölmeyle ikiye ayrılmış bir kabın bir yanını tuzlu, öbür yanını tatlı suyla doldurdu ve bölmede açtığı iki delikten suların nasıl hareket ettiğini izledi.
He filled one side of a container, divided in two down the middle by a partition, with salty water and the other side with fresh water, and watched how the waters moved through two holes he had made in the partition.
Ağır tuzlu su alttaki delikten öbür tarafa geçerken, hafif tatlı su üstteki delikten ters yöne aktı.
While the heavy salty water passed to the other side through the lower hole, the light fresh water flowed the opposite way through the upper hole.
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