asırlık
adjective C1- hundred-year-old
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “my” ending is -ım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: asırlıkında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: asırlıkıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Asırlık kemerlerin altında yavaşça yürürken, eski ipek tüccarlarının telaşlı ayak seslerini adeta duyabilirsiniz.
While walking slowly under the century-old arches, you can almost hear the hurried footsteps of old silk merchants.
Köy meydanında bulunan asırlık çınar ağacının gölgesinde dinlenen yerel halka ellerindeki haritayı gösterdiler.
They showed the map in their hands to the local people resting in the shade of the century-old plane tree located in the village square.
İstanbul'un kalbinde yer alan asırlık kütüphane, gündüzleri kalabalık bir arı kovanını andırırken geceleri derin bir sessizliğe bürünürdü.
The century-old library located in the heart of Istanbul resembled a crowded beehive during the day, while at night it would be enveloped in a deep silence.
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