sabunlu
adjective- soapy, saponaceous, resembling, containing, or covered in soap
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in sabunlum.
The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sabunlusunda. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -su. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: sabunlusunda. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sabunlusuyla. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -su. After a vowel, y joins the ending: sabunlusuyla. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Biri çamaşır makinesinin yarım kaldığını, diğeri duşta sabunlu kaldığını yazıyor.
One writes that their washing machine stopped halfway, the other that they were left soapy in the shower.
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