nüfus
noun A2- population
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “my” ending is -um.
The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -u. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: nüfusunda. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -u. After a vowel, y joins the ending: nüfusuyla. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Phrases
From the library
Örneğin bazı şehirlerin nüfusunu ya da bina sayısını gerçekte olduğundan çok daha büyük gösterir.
For example, he makes the population or the number of buildings of some cities much larger than they really were.
Okuryazarlık oranı da oldukça düşüktü: 1927 nüfus sayımına göre halkın yaklaşık onda biri okuyup yazabiliyordu.
The literacy rate was also quite low: according to the 1927 census, about one in ten people could read and write.
Haksız da sayılmazlar; ne de olsa bir zamanlar nüfusun büyük çoğunluğu tarlada çalışırken bugün sanayileşmiş ülkelerde bu oran oldukça küçüktür.
Nor can they really be called wrong; after all, while the great majority of the population once worked in the fields, in industrialized countries today that share is quite small.
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