ilmek
verb B2- to tie loosely to
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: ileceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: iler.
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## Zekâ
Zekâ tefelsüfe mâ'ildi...
Tramvay Taksim Meydanı'ndan kalkar ve yavaş yavaş ilerler.
The tram departs from Taksim Square and moves forward slowly.
Yarım asırdan uzun bir süredir ilmek ilmek dokuduğu halılar, sadece birer eşya değil, aynı zamanda onun hayatının renkli birer özetiydi.
The carpets she had woven knot by knot for more than half a century were not just objects, but at the same time colorful summaries of her life.
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