balkan
noun B2- wooded, craggy mountain range.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “my” ending is -ım.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: balkanında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: balkanıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Ben Balkan Harbi'nden sonra İzmir'e gitmiştim.
Anadolu'dan Balkanlar'a, Kafkasya'dan Mısır'a kadar pek çok yeri gezdi.
He traveled through many places, from Anatolia to the Balkans and from the Caucasus to Egypt.
Belki de bu yüzden fıkralar, Balkanlar'dan Orta Asya'ya kadar pek çok dile çevrilmiş, her kültürde kendine yeni bir yurt bulmuştur.
Perhaps that is why the anecdotes have been translated into many languages, from the Balkans to Central Asia, and have found a new home in every culture.
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