akmak
verb B1- to flow (move as a fluid) · Eskiden ırmak, bu köprünün altından akarmış., In the past, the river used to flow under this bridge.
- to leak
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe stem, then -iyor, then a person ending. The first vowel of -iyor follows vowel harmony (geliyor, alıyor, okuyor, görüyor), but -yor never changes, so the person endings after it are always back: -um, -sun, -uz.
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
After a voiceless consonant (f, s, t, k, ç, ş, h, p) the d of -di becomes t: aktı.
-ecek after a front vowel, -acak after a back one. After a stem ending in a vowel, a buffer y joins them: başlayacak.
k becomes ğ before a vowel: akacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: akar.
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Onun dili, kuralların sıkı çerçevesine sığmayan, şiirsel ve kendiliğinden bir dildir; cümleleri zaman zaman konuşur gibi akar.
His language is lyrical and spontaneous and will not fit within the strict frame of the rules; at times his sentences flow as if he were talking.
Evlerin yanında uzun bir nehir akıyor.
A long river flows beside the houses.
Martıların üzerinde süzüldüğü dalgalar, dar noktalarda hızlanır ve yer yer küçük bir nehir gibi köpürerek akar.
The waves over which gulls glide speed up at the narrow points and here and there flow foaming like a small river.
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