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Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

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Forms doubled with the aid of mI can occasionally be used as adverbs:<br />

yavaş mı yavaş (okuyor) ‘(s/he reads) very slowly’<br />

9.3.1 DOUBLING IN LEXICAL FORMATIONS<br />

There are a number of idiomatic expressions that are created by doubling. Some of these<br />

contain similar sounding words which may or may not exist independently, or they may<br />

be formed by two words that denote similar concepts:<br />

konu komşu ‘neighbours’<br />

ufak tefek ‘tiny’<br />

Reduplication 93<br />

paldır küldür ‘with an enormous noise’<br />

çoluk çocuk ‘wife and children’<br />

süklüm püklüm ‘in a crestfallen manner’

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