sayı
noun A1- number (abstract entity)
- issue (of a magazine)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in sayım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sayısında. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: sayısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sayısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: sayısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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Örneğin bazı şehirlerin nüfusunu ya da bina sayısını gerçekte olduğundan çok daha büyük gösterir.
For example, he makes the population or the number of buildings of some cities much larger than they really were.
Son yıllarda ise şehirden köye taşınan insanların sayısı artıyor.
In recent years, though, the number of people moving from the city to the village has been growing.
Okullar yaygınlaştıkça okuryazarların sayısı da hızla arttı; 1935'te yapılan sayımda oran neredeyse iki katına çıkmıştı.
As schools spread, the number of literate people rose quickly too; by the census of 1935 the rate had almost doubled.
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