tepmek
verb- to kick, especially for an animal
- to tread on, trample (something)
- to decline, turn down, reject (something); to throw away (an opportunity, a chance)
- (for a gun) to kick, recoil.
- to reappear
- to beat
- to tuck something into a hole
- to trample
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe stem, then -iyor, then a person ending. The first vowel of -iyor follows vowel harmony (geliyor, alıyor, okuyor, görüyor), but -yor never changes, so the person endings after it are always back: -um, -sun, -uz.
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
After a voiceless consonant (f, s, t, k, ç, ş, h, p) the d of -di becomes t: tepti.
-ecek after a front vowel, -acak after a back one. After a stem ending in a vowel, a buffer y joins them: başlayacak.
k becomes ğ before a vowel: tepeceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: teper.
From the library
Kemençe çalarken herkes el ele tutuşur ve horon teper.
While the kemençe plays, everyone joins hands and dances the horon.
Bu yüzden düğünlerde ve şenliklerde herkes büyük bir coşkuyla horon teper.
Because of this, everyone dances the horon with great enthusiasm at weddings and festivals.
Karagöz başını sallayarak, “ Hemen ekliyorum, öfkeyle dizlerinden teperim,” diye mırıldandı ve kağıdı katladı.
Karagöz, shaking his head, muttered "I am adding it right away: 'I kick your knees with anger'" and folded the paper.
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