ağırlamak
verb B2- To provide a guest with comfort and to show them respect; to host, to entertain, to show hospitality towards.
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: ağırla- → ağırlıyor.
-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: ağırlayacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
After a vowel, the aorist is just -r: ağırlar.
From the library
Kendi alanında dünyanın en büyüklerinden biri olan bu müze, her yıl yerli ve yabancı binlerce ziyaretçiyi ağırlıyor.
This museum, which is one of the largest in the world in its field, hosts thousands of local and foreign visitors every year.
Haliç'in iki yakasını birbirine bağlayan bu köprü, her gün binlerce insanı ağırlar.
Connecting the two sides of the Golden Horn to each other, this bridge hosts thousands of people every day.
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