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Can you tell me other words not going with Vowel harmony?
1.       Serdar07
428 posts
 03 Jun 2007 Sun 12:04 pm

Why Saat ... became Saatler and not Saatlar?
can you tell me more words same to this case?... thanks

2.       Elisa
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 03 Jun 2007 Sun 03:00 pm

Quoting Serdar07:

Why Saat ... became Saatler and not Saatlar?



That's because it's a loan word from Arabic. You have to learn those by heart, there's no rule for it.

Another one is "harf - harfler"

Dictionary indicates them by putting (-i) next to them normally.

3.       Serdar07
428 posts
 03 Jun 2007 Sun 03:10 pm

Thanks Elisa ... So it is because importing words from Arabic ...

4.       caliptrix
3055 posts
 04 Jun 2007 Mon 03:19 pm

In fact, the reason is not because they are from Arabic. The reason is the pronunciation of the last syllable.

For example: kitap is from Arabic too, but suffixes are suitable to vowel harmony: kitaplAr

Look at "saat"s lat syllable. it is "at". normally there is another word "at" (horse). It's pronunciation has a bass voice "a". But "saat"s last syllable "at" has a treble voice as "a" like a letter between "a" and "e". So, you have to add the suffixes as if the last syllable is "e".

5.       Serdar07
428 posts
 04 Jun 2007 Mon 04:15 pm

Teşekkurlar Caliptrix ...
That is making more sense and it is a contirbution to this topic.

6.       caliptrix
3055 posts
 05 Jun 2007 Tue 03:08 am

Quoting Serdar07:

Teşekkurlar Caliptrix ...
That is making more sense and it is a contirbution to this topic.



teşekkürler << "ü", and then "e"

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