çukur
noun B2- hole, pit, hollow, cavity, depression, sump, a place located at a lower level than its surroundings
- hollow, glen, gully, dale, a secluded and narrow valley or a depression between hills
- fovea, fossa, any slight depression or pit in the human body
- synonym of mezar (“grave, tomb”)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “my” ending is -um.
The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -u. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: çukurunda. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -u. After a vowel, y joins the ending: çukuruyla. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Gün boyunca el ele verip yüzlerce çam fidanını özenle açtığımız çukurlara yerleştirdik.
Throughout the day, joining hands, we carefully placed hundreds of pine saplings into the holes we dug.
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