düdük
noun C1- whistle, a device designed to be blown or driven by steam to make a whistling sound
- pipe, a tubular wind instrument lined with holes and sounded by blowing into the tube
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Tap for its suffix chainThe k of düdük becomes ğ before a vowel: düdüğüm. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “my” ending is -üm.
The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
The k of düdük becomes ğ before a vowel: düdüğünde. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ü. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: düdüğünde. The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
The k of düdük becomes ğ before a vowel: düdüğüyle. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ü. After a vowel, y joins the ending: düdüğüyle. The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
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Yetmişini aşmış bir İstanbullu, çocukluğunu anlatırken vapur düdüğünü, iskeledeki kalabalığı ve denizin tuzlu kokusunu sanki dünmüş gibi hatırlar.
An Istanbulite past seventy, telling of his childhood, remembers the ferry's whistle, the crowd at the pier and the salty smell of the sea as if it were yesterday.
Derken, Boğaz'ın üzerinden bir vapur düdüğü yükseldi: kalın, uzun ve sanki yüz yıl öncesinden geliyormuşçasına yorgun.
Just then, a ferry horn rose over the Bosphorus: deep, long, and weary, as if it were coming from a hundred years ago.
Aynı yağmur, aynı kestane kokusu, aynı düdük oradaydı; değişen, yalnızca onları duyandı.
The same rain, the same smell of chestnuts, the same horn were there; the only thing that had changed was the one who sensed them.
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