ikileme
noun- A type of (phono)semantic reduplicative grammatical construction often involving nonsense words, words of similar meaning, onomatopoeia etc. · "Çalı çırpı," biri anlamlı diğeri de anlamsız bir ikilemeye örnektir., "Çalı çırpı" is an example of an semantic reduplication made of one real and one nonsensical word.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in ikilemem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ikilemesinde. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: ikilemesinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ikilemesiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: ikilemesiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
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