düşünmek

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دوشنمك, دوشونمك (düşünmek), from Proto-Turkic *tüĺ-ün- (“to think, understand”). Cognate with Uyghur چۈشەنمەك (chüshenmek, “to understand”), Uzbek tushunmoq (“to understand”), and Kazakh түсіну (tüsınu, “to understand”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dy.ʃyn.ˈmek/
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Verb

düşünmek (third-person singular simple present düşünür)

  1. to think
    • 1943, Sabahattin Ali, Kürk Mantolu Madonna:
      Fakat bunu düşünürken yalnız o adamların dışlarına bakarız
      But when we think about this, we only look at the outside of those men.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “düşünmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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