meşru müdafaa
noun- self-defense, especially in legal contexts · Sanık, meşru müdafaa kapsamında hareket ettiğini iddia etti., The defendant claimed to have acted in self-defense.
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Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in meşru müdafaam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: meşru müdafaasında. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: meşru müdafaasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: meşru müdafaasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: meşru müdafaasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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