pasta
noun B1- cake · Doğum günü pastası çok güzeldi., The birthday cake was very nice.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in pastam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: pastasında. 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: pastasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: pastasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: pastasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Elif: Evet, çikolatalı pasta var mı?
Elif: Yes. Do you have chocolate cake?
Elif: Pasta kaç lira?
Elif: How much is the cake?
Garson: Pasta yüz yirmi, simit otuz beş lira.
Waiter: The cake is a hundred and twenty, the simit thirty-five lira.
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