kura
noun B2- Choosing the outcome among two or more candidates by chance; drawing lots, drawing straws.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in kuram.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: kurasında. 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: kurasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: kurasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: kurasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
İşte tam bu noktada, Türkçenin o meşhur dolaylı anlatım eki olan ve duyulan geçmiş zamanı kuran yapı bütün zarafetiyle devreye girer.
Right at this exact point, that famous indirect speech suffix of Turkish, the structure that forms the evidential past tense, comes into play with all its elegance.
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