Some Verbs that have Dual Voice

There are some verbs that can function both reflexive and passive voice.

For instance

alınmak -

as passive voice;

al- ın- mak ---> to be taken, to be received, to be obtained

Tarihten alınacak çok ders var. = There are so many lessons to be taken from the history.

as reflexive voice ;

alın- mak ----> to take offense

Umarım sözlerime alınmıyorsundur. - I hope you don´t take offence in my words.

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sıkılmak-

as passive voice;

sık-ıl- mak ----> to be[get] squeezed

Salataya iki tane limon sıkıldı. ---> Two lemon are [was] squeezed into the salad.

as reflexive voice ;

sıkıl- mak -----> be bored, to get bored.

Derste çok sıkıldım. ----> I got bored alot in the class.

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Some other Dual Voiced Verbs are ;

Atıl -mak

Bulun -mak

Sanıl -mak

Toplan -mak

Tutul - mak

Söylen -mek

Süslen - mek

etc...

Do you think yenmek belongs to this group also? It has a clear passive meaning ´to be eaten´ and a strange (reflexive origin?) meaning ´to beat, to conquer´ whose connection to eating is a little bit hard to understand.

The verb´s active voice also has to do with becoming a victim or being forced to experience something unpleasant, at least in the idioms dayak yemek ´to get a beating´ or gol yemek ´to give up a goal´.

It´s not related to ye-mek. It´s a different verb.

ye-mek has no reflexive form. "kendi kendisini yemek" is used instead for reflexive voice.

The verb " Yenmek" [ to overcome, conquer; to beat ] does not belong to this group as it is NOT a reflexive verb. And its passive form  is " yenilmek " [ to be beaten,to be defeated] which  creates the confusion  with another verb "ye-mek [to eat]" and its passive form  " yenmek "

Passive of ye-mek is ye-n-mek

ye-n-mek = to be eaten

yen-il-mek = to be beaten

i ve just noticed it si ++ ..you are too quick as always

as you said, it is becoming a victim or unpleasent thing..such as ;

azar yemek

laf yemek

oruç yemek

para yemek [this might mean good too ]

Good to know. yenmek ´to conquer´ always confused me because I imagined a connection here.

Thank you, si++, tunci.

Interesting. In my language we "swallow" the unpleasant thing.