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.
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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.
Bu alt akıntı, Marmara'nın tuzlu ve ağır suyunu sessizce kuzeye, Karadeniz'in derinliklerine taşır.
This lower current silently carries the salty, heavy water of the Marmara north, into the depths of the Black Sea.
Akdeniz'de ise durum tam tersidir: sıcak güneşin altında hızla buharlaşan su, geride daha tuzlu ve dolayısıyla daha yoğun bir deniz bırakır.
In the Mediterranean, the situation is exactly the opposite: water that evaporates quickly under the hot sun leaves behind a saltier and therefore denser sea.
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