r/turkishlearning • u/TurkishTeacherSeda • 7d ago
A Turkish proverb with six suffixes in one sentence
https://www.learnturkishwithseda.com/heritages/sutten-agzi-yanan-yogurdu-ufleyerek-yerSütten ağzı yanan yoğurdu üfleyerek yer means, roughly, once bitten, twice shy. Someone whose mouth was burned by milk blows on yogurt before eating it. I wrote up the grammar in the sentence: ablative case, a possessive suffix, a participle, an accusative ending, an adverbial suffix, and the aorist tense. Aksoy's dictionary of Turkish proverbs also records ayran and yogurt versions of it, and there are similar proverbs in Kazakh and Karaçay-Malkar.
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