koskoca
adjective C1- intensive of koca: enormous, gigantic, gargantuan
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in koskocam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: koskocasında. 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: koskocasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: koskocasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: koskocasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Yeri geldiğinde bir cümlenin sonuna eklenen küçücük bir ek bile, koskoca bir antlaşmanın kaderini tamamen değiştirebilecek bir güce sahipti.
When the time came, even a tiny suffix added to the end of a sentence had a power that could completely change the fate of a huge treaty.
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