zaaf
noun C1- weakness
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “my” ending is -ım.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: zaafında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: zaafıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Anlatıcısı insanları hiçbir zaman yargılamaz; onların zaaflarına, yalnızlıklarına ve küçük sevinçlerine aynı şefkatle bakar.
His narrator never judges people; he looks on their weaknesses, their loneliness and their small joys with the same tenderness.
Anlatılan her bir masal veya efsane, insanları güldürürken düşündürmeyi amaçlayan, insanlığın evrensel zaaflarını zarif bir mizah anlayışıyla eleştiren edebi bir metin dokusuna sahiptir.
Every tale or legend told has a literary text texture that aims to make people think while making them laugh, criticizing the universal weaknesses of humanity with an elegant sense of humor.
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