yıkanmak
verb C1- to wash oneself, to bathe, to take a bath or shower
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.
-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: yıkanacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Verbs of more than one syllable take -ir (-ır, -ur, -ür): yıkanır.
From the library
Nasreddin Hoca bir gün yıkanmak için hamama gitti.
One day, Nasreddin Hodja went to the Turkish bath to wash.
Hoca kendi kendine yıkandı ve dışarı çıktı.
The Hodja washed by himself and went outside.
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