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Gagauz
- -lär (during vowel harmony)
- -nar (during assimilation)
Pronunciation
Suffix
-lar
- forms plurals from noun roots ending with back vowels
- ana (“mother”) + -lar → analar (“mothers”)
- uşak (“child”) + -lar → uşaklar (“children”)
Turkish
Pronunciation
Suffix
-lar
- Form of -ler after the vowels A / I / O / U.
- kurbağa + -lar → kurbağalar
- Bu ülkede daima Mustafa'lar olacak. ― There will always be people like Mustafa in this country.
- Amcalarım bize gelecek. ― My uncle and his family will come to us.
Derived terms
Category Turkish terms suffixed with -lar not found
Uzbek
Etymology
From Old Turkic (-lar), of uncertain origin, but thought to be of Common Turkic origin that was absent from Proto-Turkic, as it is not found in the sister Oghur branch (namely Chuvash).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-lar
- used to form plurals of nouns
- kitoblar
- suffix to show respect for the noun attached
- otamlar
- (when attached to numbers) about, around, approximately
- Soat uchlarda — Approximately at three o'clock