yanmak
verb A2- to burn, be on fire; to burn up, burn down
- to be burned, scorched, or singed; to get a burn or scald; to get sunburned
- to be blazing hot, be hot as blazes
- to have fever, be feverish
- to smart, suffer
- to be in a bad predicament, be sunk, be done for, have had it; to get it in the neck; to be in the soup
- to expire; to become void
- to be out, be eliminated
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chain yanburn
ıyorpresent continuous
umI
The 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.
yanburn
dıpast
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
yanburn
acağfuture (k → ğ)
ımI
-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: yanacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
yanburn
araorist · habit
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: yanar.
Words from it
From the library
Karac'oğlan, size bakar sevinir;
Sevinirken kalbi yanar, köyünür;
Kımıldanır hep derdlerim, devinir;
Yas ile sevincim yıkışır dağlar.
Sular mı yandı?
Aşkın bu karanlık gecesinde
Hicrânımı duydum, seni andım,
Firkat-zede bülbül gibi yandım.
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