geç kalmak
verb- to be late · Tren geç kaldı., The train was late.
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.
-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: kalacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
This is one of the 13 one-syllable verbs that take -ir (al-, bil-, bul-, dur-, gel-, gör-, kal-, ol-, öl-, san-, ver-, var-, vur-): kalır.
From the library
Hemen otobüsten indi çünkü sınava geç kalmak istemiyordu.
She got off the bus immediately because she did not want to be late for the exam.
Bu uzun gecikme yüzünden İstanbul'daki önemli bir iş görüşmeme maalesef geç kaldım.
Because of this long delay, I was unfortunately late for an important job interview in Istanbul.
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