çakmak
verb B2- to knock in, to nail
- to flash, to blink
- to strike fire
- to notice, to savvy, to understand
- to fuck
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: çaktı.
-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: çakacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: çakar.
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Phrases
From the library
## Çakmak
— Ulan İboş, sen be?!..
Dar poturunun yamanmış bir yırtığa benzeyen cebinden nikel bir çakmak çıkardı.
— Ben tütün kesesiyle beraber bir çakmak çıkardım mı?
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