çorba
noun B2- soup
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in çorbam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: çorbasında. 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: çorbasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: çorbasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: çorbasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Özellikle senin yaptığın mercimek çorbasını ve sıcak ekmeği çok özledim.
I especially miss the lentil soup you make and the warm bread.
Bunun üzerine kürkünün yenini çorbaya batırıp kürküne yemesini söyler; ne de olsa davet edilenin kendisi değil, kürkü olduğunu anlamıştır.
At that, he dips the sleeve of his fur coat into the soup and tells the coat to eat; after all, he has understood that it was not he who was invited, but his fur coat.
Orada önce sıcak bir çorba içtim.
There, first I had hot soup.
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