yaşlı
adjective B1- old (for people, animals etc.)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in yaşlım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yaşlısında. 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: yaşlısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yaşlısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: yaşlısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
From the library
Yanımda yaşlı bir adam oturuyordu.
An old man was sitting next to me.
Keloğlan, yaşlı annesiyle birlikte köyün kenarındaki küçük bir evde otururmuş.
Keloğlan lived with his old mother in a small house at the edge of the village.
Yanında yaşlı bir adam var.
Next to her, there is an elderly man.
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