hece
noun C1- syllable
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in hecem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: hecesinde. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: hecesinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: hecesiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: hecesiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
Words from it
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Bu şiirsel yarışma sırasında sanatçılar, önceden belirlenmiş bir uyak düzenine ve hece ölçüsüne sadık kalarak yeteneklerini sergilemek zorundadırlar.
During this poetic competition, artists must showcase their talents while remaining faithful to a predetermined rhyme scheme and syllabic meter.
Yüzyıllardır süregelen aruz ve hece ölçülerinin, hızla değişen modern dünyanın dinamiklerini ifade etmekte yetersiz kaldığını düşünmeye başlamıştı.
He had begun to think that the aruz and syllabic meters, which had been ongoing for centuries, remained insufficient in expressing the dynamics of the rapidly changing modern world.
Hece ölçüsünün tekdüze yapısından kurtulan dizeler, bazen usulca akan bir nehir gibi sakin, bazen de çağlayan bir şelale gibi coşkuluydu.
The lines, freed from the monotonous structure of syllabic meter, were sometimes calm like a gently flowing river, and sometimes enthusiastic like a cascading waterfall.
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