can çekişmek
verb- to be about to die, especially in a painful or laborious way trying to stay alive · Şu an sahip olduğumuz kediyi yıllar önce araba çarpmasından dolayı yolda can çekişir halde bulduk., Years ago we found our current cat on a road about to die after a car had hit it.
- to near one's end, especially struggling to stay afloat or effectively functioning · Bir zamanlar başarılı olan şirket, şimdi ekonomik krizden dolayı can çekişiyor., The once-succesful company is now struggling to stay afloat due to the economic crisis.
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.
After a voiceless consonant (f, s, t, k, ç, ş, h, p) the d of -di becomes t: çekişti.
-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: çekişeceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Verbs of more than one syllable take -ir (-ır, -ur, -ür): çekişir.
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