oyalamak
verb C1- to amuse, occupy, divert, entertain, to engage the attention of someone agreeably
- to stall, put off, buy time, play for time, to delay a situation until one is prepared
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.
A stem ending in a vowel drops it before -iyor: oyala- → oyalıyor.
-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: oyalayacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
After a vowel, the aorist is just -r: oyalar.
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Pek bunaldıkça aldatır, oyalar
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