elli
numeral B2- fifty
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in ellim.
The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ellisinde. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: ellisinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: ellisiyle. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: ellisiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
Phrases
From the library
Elli altmış kuruş ufak para miras bırakmış olan bu Türk edibinin mezarını bundan sonra da yapmasak pekala olur.
Temkinliler ise geçişin bedelini kimin ödeyeceğini soruyorlar: Elli yaşında işini kaybeden bir çevirmen, yeni bir mesleğe kolayca uyum sağlayabilir mi?
The cautious, for their part, ask who will pay the price of the transition: can a translator who loses her job at fifty easily adapt to a new profession?
Satıcı dedi, “ Beş yüz elli lira.”
The sales clerk said, 'Five hundred fifty liras.'
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