tuğla
noun B2- brick
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in tuğlam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tuğlasında. 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: tuğlasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tuğlasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: tuğlasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
From the library
Onlar, kelimeleri birer sağlam tuğla gibi özenle kullanarak iki farklı dünya arasında aşılması çok zor görünen görünmez duvarları yıkmayı başardılar.
By carefully using words like solid bricks, they succeeded in tearing down the invisible walls between two different worlds that seemed very difficult to overcome.
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