devşirmek
verb- to collect, gather
- to fold, roll up
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.
-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: devşireceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Verbs of more than one syllable take -ir (-ır, -ur, -ür): devşirir.
From the library
Hayatın akışı içinde sürekli kabuk değiştiren bir canlı gibi, biz de taşındığımız her yeni şehre kendimizden bir parça bırakır, oradan da yeni umutlar devşiririz.
Like a living creature constantly shedding its skin in the flow of life, we too leave a piece of ourselves in every new city we move to, and from there we gather new hopes.
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