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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـدن (-den), from Old Anatolian Turkish ـدن (-den), from Proto-Turkic *-den.
Pronunciation
Suffix
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preceding vowel
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| A / I / O / U
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E / İ / Ö / Ü
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| default
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-dan
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-den
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| assimilated
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-tan
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-ten
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-den
- Used to form ablative of nouns.
- köy (“village”) + -den → köyden (“from the village”)
- of, from (indicating cause)
- kanser (“cancer”) + -den → kanserden (“of cancer”)
- Kanserden öldü. ― They died of cancer.
- through, out of
- Kitabını pencereden attı. ― They chucked their book out of the window.
Usage notes