çete

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Turkish

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian četa, from Ottoman Turkish چته (çete, raid, loot), attested before 1512. According to Nişanyan the South Slavic četa is a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish and it is derived from çat-/çet- “to hit, strike, steal”, see more at çatmak or its reciprocal form çatışmak (to conflict). /a/>/e/ or /ı/>/i/ transformation in words containing "/ç/" or "/ş/" is common in Turkish.

Noun

çete (definite accusative çeteyi, plural çeteler)

  1. armed band (of irregulars, partisans, guerrillas, bandits, brigands)
  2. gang

Declension

Inflection
Nominative çete
Definite accusative çeteyi
Singular Plural
Nominative çete çeteler
Definite accusative çeteyi çeteleri
Dative çeteye çetelere
Locative çetede çetelerde
Ablative çeteden çetelerden
Genitive çetenin çetelerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular çetem çetelerim
2nd singular çeten çetelerin
3rd singular çetesi çeteleri
1st plural çetemiz çetelerimiz
2nd plural çeteniz çeteleriniz
3rd plural çeteleri çeteleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular çetemi çetelerimi
2nd singular çeteni çetelerini
3rd singular çetesini çetelerini
1st plural çetemizi çetelerimizi
2nd plural çetenizi çetelerinizi
3rd plural çetelerini çetelerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular çeteme çetelerime
2nd singular çetene çetelerine
3rd singular çetesine çetelerine
1st plural çetemize çetelerimize
2nd plural çetenize çetelerinize
3rd plural çetelerine çetelerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular çetemde çetelerimde
2nd singular çetende çetelerinde
3rd singular çetesinde çetelerinde
1st plural çetemizde çetelerimizde
2nd plural çetenizde çetelerinizde
3rd plural çetelerinde çetelerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular çetemden çetelerimden
2nd singular çetenden çetelerinden
3rd singular çetesinden çetelerinden
1st plural çetemizden çetelerimizden
2nd plural çetenizden çetelerinizden
3rd plural çetelerinden çetelerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular çetemin çetelerimin
2nd singular çetenin çetelerinin
3rd singular çetesinin çetelerinin
1st plural çetemizin çetelerimizin
2nd plural çetenizin çetelerinizin
3rd plural çetelerinin çetelerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular çeteyim çetelerim
2nd singular çetesin çetelersin
3rd singular çete
çetedir
çeteler
çetelerdir
1st plural çeteyiz çeteleriz
2nd plural çetesiniz çetelersiniz
3rd plural çeteler çetelerdir

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