sıkı
adjective B1- rigorous
- stringent
- tight
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Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in sıkım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sıkısında. 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: sıkısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sıkısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: sıkısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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Onun dili, kuralların sıkı çerçevesine sığmayan, şiirsel ve kendiliğinden bir dildir; cümleleri zaman zaman konuşur gibi akar.
His language is lyrical and spontaneous and will not fit within the strict frame of the rules; at times his sentences flow as if he were talking.
Sonra kapıyı elleriyle çok sıkı tutuyor.
Then he holds the door very tightly with his hands.
Sıkı kimlik doğrulama adımları da kullanıcıların kendilerini bu süreçte çok daha güvende hissetmelerini sağlıyor.
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