geçinmek
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كچینمك (geçinmek). By surface analysis, geç- (“to pass, to cross”) + -in (“reflexive suffix”) + -mek.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]geçinmek (third-person singular simple present geçinir)
(Sense 1, 2, 3): (with -le or ile)
- (reflexive) to provide for one's survival
- (reflexive) to get by, to make ends meet
- Tek maaşla geçiniyorum. ― I get by on one salary.
- (reflexive) to get along, to get on well
- (reflexive, figurative) to freeload off of someone, to take advantage of
- (reflexive, figurative, with diye or gibi) to pose as, to act like, to self-declare as
- 2017, Ebubekir Subaşı, chapter 3, in Kösem Valide Sultan; Tahtsız Padişah, Çelik Yayınevi, →ISBN:
- Roma İmparatoru diye geçinen II. Ferdinand, henüz hayattayken oğlunu batıda 'Yedi Kral' diye bilinen elektörlere imparator tâyin ettirmek istiyordu.
- Ferdinand II, who was posing as the Roman Emperor, wanted to have his son appointed emperor by the electors known in the West as the 'Seven Kings' while he was still alive.
Conjugation
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “geçinmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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