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Turkish
Etymology
Compound of göz (“eye”) + -ü (possessive suffix) + doymak (“to be full, to be sated”), literally “for one's eye to be full”. Cognate with Turkmen göz doymak, Salar gözi doyğusı,[1] Azerbaijani gözü doymamaq (“to want more of something much desired after enough has been obtained”), Kazakh көзі тою (közı toü), Uyghur (köz toymaq).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɟœˈzy.doj.mak/
- Hyphenation: gö‧zü‧doy‧mak
Verb
gözü doymak (third-person singular simple present gözü doyar)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) (for literal or figurative hunger) To be satisfied for the time being after having enough of something desired, to be sated, to be satiated.
- Adama bir sürü yiyecek getirdik ama hala beklenti içinde, bir türlü gözü doymadı. ― We brought the guy a ton of food but he's still in expectation, he's just not satisfied.
Usage notes
- In the base form of the verb, "göz" has the possessive suffix for 3rd Person Singular, this suffix changes accordingly for other persons;
- 1st P. Sg. "-üm" → (gözüm)
- 2nd P. Sg. "-ün" → (gözün)
- 1st P. Pl. "-ümüz" → (gözümüz)
- 2nd P. Pl. "-ünüz" → (gözünüz)
- 3rd P. Pl. "-leri" → (gözleri)
- Since göz assumes the position of the subject in the sentence, the verb doymak can only be inflected in 3rd person singular or plural.
Conjugation
Conjugation of gözü doymak
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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.
References
- ^ Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “gözü doymak”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 123
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