ellemek
verb B1- to handle, to touch; to feel with the hand.
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.
A stem ending in a vowel drops it before -iyor: elle- → elliyor.
-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: elleyeceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
After a vowel, the aorist is just -r: eller.
From the library
Çok utandım ve ellerim direksiyonda biraz titredi.
I was very embarrassed, and my hands trembled a little on the steering wheel.
Kadın atlasın kapağını okşar gibi elledi, sonra sayfaları, aradığı yeri ezbere biliyormuş gibi hızla çevirdi.
The woman touched the cover of the atlas as if stroking it, then turned the pages quickly, as though she knew by heart the place she was looking for.
Deneyimli eller ise termometre kullanmadan da sütün sıcaklığını parmaklarıyla kolayca anlayabilir.
Experienced hands, however, can easily tell the milk's temperature with their fingers, even without a thermometer.
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