kukla
noun B2- puppet (string puppet)
- marionette
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in kuklam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: kuklasında. 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: kuklasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: kuklasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: kuklasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
From the library
Kuklalar bu perdede yavaş yavaş hareket eder.
Puppets move slowly on this screen.
İnsanlar bu kuklaları izler.
People watch these puppets.
Bu atölyede uzun yıllardır çalışan Ahmet Usta, geleneksel gölge oyunu kuklaları yapıyor.
Master Ahmet, who has been working in this workshop for many years, makes traditional shadow play puppets.
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