düşünmek

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Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دوشنمك, دوشونمك (düşünmek), from Proto-Turkic *tüĺ-ün- (to think, understand). Cognate with Uyghur چۈشەنمەك (chüshenmek, to understand), Uzbek tushunmoq (to understand), and Kazakh түсіну (tüsınu, to understand).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dy.ʃynˈmek/
  • Hyphenation: dü‧şün‧mek
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Verb

düşünmek (third-person singular simple present düşünür)

  1. to think
    • 1943, Sabahattin Ali, Kürk Mantolu Madonna:
      Fakat bunu düşünürken yalnız o adamların dışlarına bakarız
      But when we think about this, we only look at the outside of those men.

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Further reading

  • düşünmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu