dik
adjective B1- vertical
- perpendicular; having a right angle
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “my” ending is -im.
The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -i. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: dikinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -i. After a vowel, y joins the ending: dikiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
Phrases
From the library
Ekim sonunun o kısa, kurşuni günlerinden birinde, akşam henüz çökmemişken, Üsküdar'ın eski bir mahallesinin dik ve dar sokaklarına ilk damlalar düşmeye başladı.
On one of those short, leaden days at the end of October, before evening had quite fallen, the first drops began to fall on the steep, narrow streets of an old neighborhood in Üsküdar.
Gürültü bize ne yapmamız gerektiğini dikte ederken, sessizlik kim olduğumuzu hatırlatır ve bizi kendi öz benliğimizle pürüzsüz bir biçimde yüzleştirir.
While noise dictates to us what we should do, silence reminds us of who we are and confronts us smoothly with our own core self.
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