bakma
noun B1- The act of looking
- The act of looking after
- maintaining
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in bakmam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: bakmasında. 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: bakmasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: bakmasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: bakmasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Yerli ve yabancı turistler bu eşyalara bakmayı çok sever.
Local and foreign tourists love looking at these items.
Sonra vaktiniz kalırsa o zor soruya tekrar dönüp bakma şansınız olacaktır.
Later, if you have time left, you will have the chance to go back and look at that difficult question again.
Bunun yanı sıra, odamın sokağa bakması nedeniyle geceleri ciddi bir gürültü problemi yaşadım.
Besides this, because my room faced the street, I experienced a serious noise problem at night.
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