sözlü
adjective B2- oral (spoken)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in sözlüm.
The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sözlüsünde. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sü. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: sözlüsünde. The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: sözlüsüyle. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sü. After a vowel, y joins the ending: sözlüsüyle. The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
Yüzyıllar boyunca nesilden nesile sözlü olarak aktarılan bu anonim halk şarkıları, insanların günlük yaşamlarını yansıtır.
Passed down orally from generation to generation for centuries, these anonymous folk songs reflect people's daily lives.
Ancak yirminci yüzyılın başlarında, bu eşsiz sözlü geleneğin sonsuza dek kaybolma tehlikesi açıkça ortaya çıktı.
However, in the early twentieth century, the danger of this unique oral tradition disappearing forever clearly emerged.
Yaşar Kemal'in eserlerinde doğa betimlemeleri ve yöresel sözlü kültür çok büyük bir yer tutar.
In Yaşar Kemal's works, nature descriptions and regional oral culture take up a very large place.
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