balıkçı
noun B2- fisherman
- fishmonger
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in balıkçım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: balıkçısında. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: balıkçısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: balıkçısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: balıkçısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
From the library
Öykülerinde balıkçılar, kahveciler, işsiz gençler, yoksul çocuklar ve İstanbul sokaklarının adı sanı bilinmeyen insanları yaşar.
His stories are home to fishermen, coffeehouse keepers, young people out of work, poor children and the nameless people of Istanbul’s streets.
Hayatının önemli bir bölümünü, ailesinin evinin bulunduğu Burgazada'da geçiren yazar, adayı, denizi ve balıkçılarını pek çok öyküsüne konu etti.
The writer, who spent a large part of his life on Burgazada, where his family’s house stood, made the island, its sea and its fishermen the subject of many of his stories.
Orada yaşlı bir balıkçı çalışıyor.
An elderly fisherman works there.
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