saymak
verb B1- to count, carry out counting · Yüze kadar sayabilirim., I can count up to 100.
- to count, make a numerical count of
- to list, specify, enumerate
- to respect, value, regard
- to take into account, consider
- to deem, regard, reckon, look upon
- to pay so much money for, to overpay
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: sayacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: sayar.
Words from it
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Öte yandan, anadilimizin o eşsiz tınısını ve kelimelerin ardında yatan derin kültürel kodları yuvanın temel yapı taşları arasında saymak kesinlikle abartı olmaz.
On the other hand, it would certainly not be an exaggeration to count that unique timbre of our mother tongue and the deep cultural codes lying behind words among the fundamental building blocks of home.
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