boğmak
verb B2- to choke, strangle, throttle; to suffocate; to drown
- to cover up with, drown (something) in (bluster, a torrent of words)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chain boğchoke
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.
boğchoke
dupast
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
boğchoke
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: boğacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
boğchoke
araorist · habit
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: boğar.
From the library
Bana bî-va’d olan bu yollar hep
Adımlarınçün açılmış pür-incilâ vü zeheb…
Bırak leyâle bu cism-i garîb ü merdûdu,
Dizim eğildi; soğuk bir deniz gibi zulmet
Ağır ağır boğuyor bende ömr-i bî-sûdu.
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