kaynamak
verb B2- to boil, to come to the state of vaporizing · Basınç arttıkça su daha yüksek sıcaklıkta kaynar., When pressure rises, water boils at a higher temperature.
- to boil, to be cooked, to stew
- to become welded, knit.
- to swarm, to teem, to abound · Bu gölde balıklar kaynıyor. / Bu göl balıklarla kaynıyor., This lake teems with fish.
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.
A stem ending in a vowel drops it before -iyor: kayna- → kaynıyor.
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
-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: kaynayacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
After a vowel, the aorist is just -r: kaynar.
Phrases
From the library
Alttaki büyük kapta su kaynar, üstteki küçük demlikte kuru çay bekler.
Water boils in the big pot at the bottom, and dry tea waits in the small teapot on top.
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