kalkmak
verb A2- to go up, rise; become erect · Tartının bir ucuna yük bindirir isen öbür ucu kalkar., If you load one side of a balance scale the other side will rise. · Kartal kalkar dal sarkar, dal sarkar kartal kalkar., The eagle rises the branch sinks, the branch sinks the eagle rises.
- to stand up, rise to one's feet, get up · ayağa kalkmak, to stand up
- to get up, wake up, get out of bed · Körle yatan şaşı kalkar., One who sleeps with the blind will wake up squint-eyed.
- to leave, depart, take off
- to rise, come loose, peel off
- to go out of use, to be annulled, be repealed, be abolished
- to erect, be hard (for a penis)
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: kalktı.
-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: kalkacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: kalkar.
Phrases
From the library
Hareme gidip yatmak için kalktı.
Hakikat bu geçiş, her günkü geçişlere benzemedi, herkes iki keçeli ayağa kalktı, adeta küçük bir merasim oldu.
Kalktım.
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