bekleme
noun B1- waiting, anticipation
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in beklemem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: beklemesinde. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: beklemesinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: beklemesiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: beklemesiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
Phrases
From the library
Otobüsten inince hemen bagaj alanına gitti ve siyah valizini beklemeye başladı.
Upon getting off the bus, she immediately went to the baggage area and started waiting for her black suitcase.
Ancak sabırla beklemeyi öğrendiğinde, fırından çıkan çıtır ekmeklerin kokusu bütün sokağı sarıyordu.
However, when he learned to wait patiently, the smell of the crispy breads coming out of the oven would envelop the whole street.
Bir işi gerçekten severek ve beklemeyi bilerek yapmanın ne kadar önemli olduğunu kavramıştı.
He had grasped how important it is to do a job by truly loving it and knowing how to wait.
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