baca
noun C1- chimney
- airshaft
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in bacam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: bacasında. 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: bacasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: bacasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: bacasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Sen kasavet etme birader, yine bu öksüz milleti yine bir mucize kurtarır...filan derken Bekirağa Bölüğü dolup dolup boşalıyor, katiller, kanlılar bacadan kaçıyor, kaçıyordu...
Böylece bugün peri bacası dediğimiz ilginç kayalar ortaya çıkmış.
This is how the curious rocks we now call fairy chimneys came about.
Birçok peri bacasının tepesinde sert taştan bir şapka vardır.
Many fairy chimneys have a cap of hard stone on top.
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