kovmak
verb C1- to drive away, kick out, expel, get rid of · Köpek kurdu kovdu., The dog drove the wolf away.
- to banish, to exile
- to fire, sack (to terminate an employee’s employment) · Beni işten kovdun., You fired me.
- to end something's existence
- to follow, to chase
- to make move, to make run
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chain kovdrive away
uyorpresent continuous
umI
The stem, then -iyor, then a person ending. The first vowel of -iyor follows vowel harmony (geliyor, alıyor, okuyor, görüyor), but -yor never changes, so the person endings after it are always back: -um, -sun, -uz.
kovdrive away
dupast
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
kovdrive away
acağfuture (k → ğ)
ımI
-ecek after a front vowel, -acak after a back one. After a stem ending in a vowel, a buffer y joins them: başlayacak.
k becomes ğ before a vowel: kovacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
kovdrive away
araorist · habit
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: kovar.
Phrases
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