çekmece
noun C1- drawer
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in çekmecem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: çekmecesinde. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: çekmecesinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: çekmecesiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: çekmecesiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
Sinan, dedesinin odasında eski bir çekmeceyi açtı.
Sinan opened an old drawer in his grandfather's room.
Bir çekmecenin köşesinde veya eski bir ahşap kutuda özenle saklanan bu kağıt parçaları, geçmişe açılan somut birer pencere işlevi görürdü.
These pieces of paper, carefully kept in the corner of a drawer or in an old wooden box, served as concrete windows opening to the past.
Size en büyük tavsiyem, bu ilk taslağı bir süreliğine karanlık bir çekmeceye kilitlemeniz ve onun varlığını zihninizden tamamen silip atmaya çalışmanızdır.
My biggest advice to you is that you lock this first draft in a dark drawer for a while and try to completely erase its existence from your mind.
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