inatçı
adjective C1- stubborn, obstinate, bullheaded
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in inatçım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: inatçısında. 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: inatçısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: inatçısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: inatçısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
From the library
Dalgaların kıyıdaki kayalıklara çarpma sesini dinlerken, bir dilden diğerine asla tam anlamıyla aktarılamayan o inatçı ve huysuz kelimeleri derin derin düşünürdü.
While listening to the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks on the shore, he would think deeply about those stubborn and grumpy words that could never be fully transferred from one language to another.
Galata’nın kozmopolit halkı, zamanı nesnel bir biçimde ölçmekten çok onu kendi arzularına göre evcilleştirmeye çalışan bu iki inatçı usta arasında yıllarca bölünmüştü.
The cosmopolitan people of Galata had been divided for years between these two stubborn masters, who tried to domesticate time according to their own desires rather than measuring it objectively.
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