kara tahta
noun- blackboard · Öğretmen kara tahtanın önündeydi., The teacher was in front of the blackboard.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in kara tahtam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: kara tahtasında. 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: kara tahtasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: kara tahtasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: kara tahtasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Mustafa Kemal ağustos ayında İstanbul'da halka seslenerek yeni harfleri tanıttı, ardından birçok şehirde kara tahta başında bizzat ders verdi.
In August, Mustafa Kemal introduced the new letters in a speech to the public in Istanbul, and then personally gave lessons at the blackboard in many cities.
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