çivi
noun B2- nail (spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in çivim.
The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: çivisinde. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: çivisinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: çivisiyle. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: çivisiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
Words from it
From the library
Çivi yazısıyla yazılmış olan bu kil tabletler, antik çağın en kapsamlı ve en önemli arşivlerinden birini oluşturur.
These clay tablets, which are written in cuneiform, form one of the most comprehensive and important archives of the ancient era.
Çivi yazısıyla ustaca kazınmış olan bu paha biçilmez belgeler, sadece soğuk ticari sözleşmelerden ibaret değildir.
These priceless documents, which are masterfully engraved with cuneiform script, do not merely consist of cold commercial contracts.
İnsanlık tarihinin bu olağanüstü dönemi, ıslak kil üzerine büyük bir ustalıkla kazınmış zarif çivi yazısı çizgileri sayesinde unutulmaktan kurtulmuş ve medeniyetin kültürel hafızasına armağan edilmiştir.
This extraordinary period of human history has been saved from being forgotten and gifted to the cultural memory of civilization thanks to the elegant cuneiform lines engraved with great mastery on wet clay.
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