öykü
noun B1- story
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in öyküm.
The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: öyküsünde. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sü. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: öyküsünde. The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: öyküsüyle. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sü. After a vowel, y joins the ending: öyküsüyle. The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
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İlk kitabı Semaver 1936'da yayımlandı; bu kitabı yıllar içinde Sarnıç, Şahmerdan, Lüzumsuz Adam ve Mahalle Kahvesi gibi öykü kitapları izledi.
His first book, Semaver (The Samovar), was published in 1936; over the years it was followed by story collections such as Sarnıç (The Cistern), Şahmerdan (The Pile Driver), Lüzumsuz Adam (The Useless Man) and Mahalle Kahvesi (The Neighborhood Coffeehouse).
Öykülerinde balıkçılar, kahveciler, işsiz gençler, yoksul çocuklar ve İstanbul sokaklarının adı sanı bilinmeyen insanları yaşar.
His stories are home to fishermen, coffeehouse keepers, young people out of work, poor children and the nameless people of Istanbul’s streets.
Hayatının önemli bir bölümünü, ailesinin evinin bulunduğu Burgazada'da geçiren yazar, adayı, denizi ve balıkçılarını pek çok öyküsüne konu etti.
The writer, who spent a large part of his life on Burgazada, where his family’s house stood, made the island, its sea and its fishermen the subject of many of his stories.
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