lira
noun A1- lira (currency of Turkey) · Türk lirası, the Turkish lira
- livre, pound · Mısır lirası, the Egyptian pound
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in liram.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: lirasında. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: lirasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: lirasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: lirasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
dört yüz bin liram var.
Otomobilini üç bin liraya almış.
Çabucacık ilerlediğini, ustabaşı olduğunu, günde yarım lira aldığını söyledi.
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