halka
noun B1- circle
- hoop
- ring
- ring
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in halkam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: halkasında. 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: halkasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: halkasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: halkasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
Phrases
From the library
## Bir Günün Sonunda Arzu
Yorgun gözümün halkalarında
Güller gibi fecr oldu nümâyân,
Güller gibi...
Yüzünü halka doğru dönerek devam etti:
— A dostla.....rr, buna hangi can dayanır?
Mustafa Kemal ağustos ayında İstanbul'da halka seslenerek yeni harfleri tanıttı, ardından birçok şehirde kara tahta başında bizzat ders verdi.
In August, Mustafa Kemal introduced the new letters in a speech to the public in Istanbul, and then personally gave lessons at the blackboard in many cities.
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