yirmi
numeral B1- twenty
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in yirmim.
The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yirmisinde. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: yirmisinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yirmisiyle. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: yirmisiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
Phrases
From the library
On gün, yirmi gün geçti.
Garson: Pasta yüz yirmi, simit otuz beş lira.
Waiter: The cake is a hundred and twenty, the simit thirty-five lira.
Piri Reis bu notlarda, haritayı yaklaşık yirmi eski haritadan yararlanarak derlediğini açıkça belirtir.
In these notes, Piri Reis states clearly that he compiled the map using some twenty older maps.
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