tuzlu
adjective B2- briny, salty
- expensive
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in tuzlum.
The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tuzlusunda. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -su. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: tuzlusunda. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: tuzlusuyla. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -su. After a vowel, y joins the ending: tuzlusuyla. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
From the library
Yetmişini aşmış bir İstanbullu, çocukluğunu anlatırken vapur düdüğünü, iskeledeki kalabalığı ve denizin tuzlu kokusunu sanki dünmüş gibi hatırlar.
An Istanbulite past seventy, telling of his childhood, remembers the ferry's whistle, the crowd at the pier and the salty smell of the sea as if it were yesterday.
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