ezmek
verb B1- to crush, squash, knead, press
- to grind, triturate
- to oppress, grind down, beat down, trample on
- to defeat, crush, beat down
- to spend lavishly a large sum of money · 10k ezdiğimiz gecenin sabahı, the morning after the night we blew 10 grand
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe stem, then -iyor, then a person ending. The first vowel of -iyor follows vowel harmony (geliyor, alıyor, okuyor, görüyor), but -yor never changes, so the person endings after it are always back: -um, -sun, -uz.
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
-ecek after a front vowel, -acak after a back one. After a stem ending in a vowel, a buffer y joins them: başlayacak.
k becomes ğ before a vowel: ezeceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: ezer.
From the library
İstanbul'dan gelen, ihtimal, Dadaruh'un kullanmaya kıyamadığı bu güzel kaşağıyı ezdim, parçaladım.
Sonra yalağın taşında ezdi.
Makineler zeytinleri ezdi ve bize taze zeytinyağı verdi.
The machines crushed the olives and gave us fresh olive oil.
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