dövmek
verb B2- to beat
- to crush, grind, pulverise
- to hit, strike such as a rug or carpet in order to shake dust and dirt out of them
- to bombard · 1939 September 8, headline in Cumhuriyet, French gunners shelled the Western front yesterday, operations continue
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chain dövbeat
üyorpresent continuous
umI
The 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.
dövbeat
düpast
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
dövbeat
eceğfuture (k → ğ)
imI
-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: döveceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
dövbeat
eraorist · habit
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: döver.
From the library
Çok dövdük, azarladık.
Hasan'a dedi ki: — Eğer yalan söylersen seni döverim!
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