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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish گیرمك (girmek), Proto-Turkic *kīr- (“to enter”).
Pronunciation
Verb
girmek (third-person singular simple present girer) (+ dative)
- to enter, to go in
- Antonym: çıkmak
- Odaya hızla girdim. ― I entered the room quickly.
- Mermi küçük deliğe kolayca girdi. ― The bullet went in the tiny hole easily.
- Havuza girecek misin? ― Are you coming in the pool?
- to go in for, to take
- sınava girmek ― to take an exam
- (intransitive) (a season, time &c.) to arrive
- Akşam namazı vakti girdi. ― It is the time for the evening prayer.
Conjugation
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.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “girmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu