ayakta
adjective B1- standing
- awake and out of bed, up
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in ayaktam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ayaktasında. 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: ayaktasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ayaktasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: ayaktasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Phrases
From the library
Yemekleri, hayvanlarının yemi, hatta yıpranan ayakkabılarının tamiri bile, kervansarayı ayakta tutan vakfın gelirleriyle karşılanırdı.
Their meals, their animals' fodder, even the mending of their worn-out shoes were paid for out of the income of the endowment that kept the caravanserai going.
Yerebatan Sarnıcı, hem dönemin mühendislik zekasını hem de estetik anlayışını gözler önüne seren nadide bir miras olarak ayakta durmaktadır.
The Basilica Cistern stands as a rare heritage that reveals both the engineering intelligence and the aesthetic understanding of the era.
Günümüzde Boğaziçi'nde ayakta kalmayı başaran yaklaşık altı yüz yalı bulunmaktadır.
Today, there are approximately six hundred waterside mansions in the Bosphorus that have managed to survive.
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