metre
noun A2- metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
- rule, folding rule
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in metrem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: metresinde. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: metresinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: metresiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: metresiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
Bu dikili taşların bazılarının yüksekliği beş metreyi geçer.
Some of these standing stones are more than five meters tall.
Satıcı, “ O halı bir metre uzunluğunda,” dedi.
The salesperson said, "That carpet is one meter long."
Deniz seviyesinden yaklaşık iki bin beş yüz metre yüksekte yer alan bu devasa bilimsel tesis tek kelimeyle muazzamdı.
This giant scientific facility, located approximately two thousand five hundred meters above sea level, was in a word magnificent.
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