yaka
noun B1- collar · gömleğimin yakası, the collar of my shirt
- side (of a district or geographical feature) · Avrupa Yakası, European Side
- edge of a sail
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in yakam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yakasında. 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: yakasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yakasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: yakasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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Phrases
From the library
Amma yine yakamı bırakmadı.
Ona "Bir pire için yorgan yakan" derlerdi.
Ben ise yakamı kaldırıp bir süre daha bir saçağın altında durdum; acele edersem bu akşamı da ötekiler gibi yitireceğimden korkuyordum sanki.
I, for my part, turned up my collar and stood a while longer under the eaves; it was as if I feared that if I hurried, I would lose this evening too, like the others.
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