sofra
noun B2- tablecloth
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in sofram.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sofrasında. 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: sofrasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sofrasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: sofrasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
From the library
Türkiye'de bir şehirden ötekine yolculuk eden biri, manzaranın yanı sıra sofraların da değiştiğini kısa sürede fark eder.
Anyone who travels from one city to another in Turkey soon notices that, along with the landscape, the food on the table changes too.
Ege mutfağının en özgün yanı, baharda dağlardan ve tarla kenarlarından toplanan yabani otların haşlanıp zeytinyağı ve limonla sofraya gelmesidir.
The most distinctive feature of Aegean cooking is that wild greens gathered in spring from the mountains and the edges of fields come to the table boiled, with olive oil and lemon.
Güneydoğu'ya, özellikle de Gaziantep'e gelindiğinde ise baharat ve et sofranın tartışmasız yıldızları olur.
When one reaches the Southeast, and Gaziantep in particular, spices and meat become the undisputed stars of the table.
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