ayva
noun B2- quince, a deciduous tree of the species Cydonia oblonga and the fruit produced by this tree
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in ayvam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ayvasında. 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: ayvasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ayvasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: ayvasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Yemek kitabındaki bir sayfada, ayva tatlısı tarifinin karşısına, aynı titiz harflerle “Tarçın değil, karanfil; kitap yanılıyor” notu düşülmüştü.
On a page of the cookbook, opposite a recipe for quince dessert, the note "Not cinnamon, cloves; the book is wrong" had been jotted in the same meticulous letters.
Ayva tatlısı konusunda ise geri adım atmadı: “Karanfil,” dedi kesin bir sesle, “kitap hâlâ yanılıyor.”
On the quince dessert, however, she did not take a step back: "Cloves," she said in a firm voice, "the book is still wrong."
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