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gitmek

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Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كتمك (gitmek), from Proto-Turkic *kē(y)t- (to go (away)). Cognate of Azerbaijani getmək, Uzbek ketmoq, Kazakh кету (ketu) etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɟitˈmek/, (dialectal) /ɡetˈmek/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: git‧mek

Verb

gitmek (third-person singular simple present gider)

  1. to go
    Antonym: gelmek
    • (Can we date this quote?), “Uzun İnce Bir Yoldayım [I Am On a Long, Thin Road]”, performed by Aşık Veysel:
      Uzun ince bir yoldayım / Gidiyorum gündüz gece / Bilmiyorum ne haldeyim / Gidiyorum gündüz gece
      I am on a long, thin road / I go day and night / I do not know what state I am in / I go day and night
  2. (for roads) to lead
    Bu cadde sahile gider.
    This street leads to the coast.
  3. to deteriorate; to grow worse
    Kadının sağlığı kötüye gidiyor.
    The woman's health is deteriorating.
  4. to suit; to be suitable or apt for one's image
    Mor bana gitmez.
    Purple doesn't suit me.
  5. (euphemistic, intransitive) to die, to pass away
    Araba çarpan adamcağız oracıkta gitmiş.
    The poor man who was hit by the car passed away right there.
  6. (intransitive) to last
    Bu telefon bana üç yıl gitti.
    This phone lasted me three years.
  7. (intransitive) to be traded at a certain rate
    Dolar bugün kaçtan gidiyor?
    At what rate is the dollar trading today?

Conjugation

More information positive conjugation, singular ...

1 The suffixes -ken and -cesine may be suffixed to the base form of any of the following tenses: aorist, continuous, inferential (even when it follows another suffix), and future.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Swedish: gitta

References

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Turkmen

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kē(y)t- (to go). Cognate with Turkish gitmek, etc.

Verb

gitmek

  1. to go
  2. to leave
  3. to continue, last
  4. to pay a visit

Conjugation

References

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