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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوق ایتمك (yok etmek). By surface analysis, yok (“none, nothing”) + etmek (“to make, to do”).
Pronunciation
Verb
yok etmek
- (transitive) to destroy, to annihilate
- Synonyms: ortadan kaldırmak, ifna etmek, izale etmek
- Antonyms: var etmek, ortaya çıkarmak
Tek bir bomba ile tüm şehri yok etmişler- They destroyed the whole city with a single bomb
- (transitive) to get rid of
- Synonym: ortadan kaldırmak
- Antonym: ortaya çıkarmak
Bütün delilleri yok etmeye çalışmışlar- They tried to get rid of all the evidence
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
References
- “yok etmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu