kapıcı
noun C1- doorman, gatekeeper
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in kapıcım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: kapıcısında. 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: kapıcısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: kapıcısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: kapıcısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Apartmanımızın çok iyi bir kapıcısı var.
Our apartment building has a very good building superintendent.
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