akraba
noun B1- relative · Akrabamın evinde kalıyorum., I'm staying at the house of a relative of mine.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in akrabam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: akrabasında. 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: akrabasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: akrabasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: akrabasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Phrases
From the library
Sonuç şaşırtıcı derecede açıktı: ekilen buğdaya en yakın akraba olan yabani bitkiler, Diyarbakır ile Şanlıurfa arasındaki Karacadağ'ın yamaçlarında yetişiyordu.
The result was surprisingly clear: the wild plants that were the closest relatives of cultivated wheat grew on the slopes of Karacadağ, between Diyarbakır and Şanlıurfa.
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