sömürmek
verb C1- to appropriate
- to benefit natural resources and economic values of another nation or state (see sömürge (“colony”))
- to quaff, gulp down, swallow, devour
- to suck in, draw inward (with mouth)
- to exploit
- to fuck over · Karısı onu öyle sömürdü ki... yıllarca çocuk nafakasını beş kuruşu olmayana kadar ödemek zorunda kaldı., His wife fucked him over so badly, he was forced to pay child support until he had nothing to his name.
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.
-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: sömüreceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Verbs of more than one syllable take -ir (-ır, -ur, -ür): sömürür.
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