tartmak
verb C1- to weigh, weigh out
- to weigh (one's words); to consider the effects, size up, evaluate
- to sound out, feel out
- to push and pull on (a door) hard
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe 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.
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
After a voiceless consonant (f, s, t, k, ç, ş, h, p) the d of -di becomes t: tarttı.
-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: tartacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: tartar.
From the library
Yabancı elçilerin diplomatik mektuplarını padişahın veya sadrazamın huzuruna çıkarırken, her bir kelimenin omuzlarına yüklediği kültürel ağırlığı dikkatle tartmak zorundaydılar.
While presenting the diplomatic letters of foreign envoys to the presence of the sultan or the grand vizier, they had to carefully weigh the cultural weight that each word placed on their shoulders.
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