yağma
noun C1- looting, plundering
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Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in yağmam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yağmasında. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: yağmasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yağmasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: yağmasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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Yeniçeriler kazan devirmişler, sipâhî zorbaları zâbitlerini parçalamışlar, payitahtı yağmaya hazırlanmışlardı.
Gece yarısına doğru aniden oldukça şiddetli bir yağmur yağmaya başladı.
Towards midnight, a quite heavy rain suddenly started to fall.
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