nine
noun C1- grandmother
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in ninem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ninesinde. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: ninesinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ninesiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: ninesiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
Words from it
From the library
Büyüdün de onun için
Söylüyorum; güzel ninen
Kaç yıl oldu bu alemden
Çekileli...
- Yalnız bilsem,
Size benzer miydi, ninem?
Uşak'ın dar sokaklarında yankılanan tahta tezgah sesleri, yıllar geçtikçe azalmış olsa da Zehra ninenin evinde bu köklü gelenek sessizce direniyordu.
Even though the sounds of wooden looms echoing in the narrow streets of Uşak have decreased as years passed, this deep-rooted tradition was silently resisting in Grandma Zehra's house.
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