maşa
noun C1- tongs, firestick
- tweezers, forceps
- curling iron
- someone used as a tool by another, pawn, stooge
- the fork of a bicycle
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Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in maşam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: maşasında. 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: maşasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: maşasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: maşasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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