katı
adjective B1- rigid, hard, tough
- strict (exact; accurate; precise; governed or governing by exact rules)
- solid (in the solid state)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in katım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: katısında. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: katısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: katısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: katısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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Bu da derde derman olamayınca, zemin katını bakkal dükkanına tahvil etti.
Okullar yaygınlaştıkça okuryazarların sayısı da hızla arttı; 1935'te yapılan sayımda oran neredeyse iki katına çıkmıştı.
As schools spread, the number of literate people rose quickly too; by the census of 1935 the rate had almost doubled.
Ondan önceki dönemlerde şiirlerde genellikle çok katı kurallar ve anlaşılması zor kelimeler kullanılırdı.
In the periods before him, very strict rules and words that were difficult to understand were generally used in poems.
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