direnmek
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ذیرنمك, from Proto-Turkic *ti-. Passive form of diremek.
Verb
[edit]direnmek (third-person singular simple present direnir)
- to resist
- Bazen arzularıma direnirim özgürlüğümü hissetmek için.
- Sometimes I resist my desires in order to feel I'm free.
- Siz beni istemeseniz yine kararımda direneceğim.
- If you don't want me, I will still insist on my decision.
Conjugation
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دیرنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 597
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “direnmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- “direnmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu