-dän

Gagauz

Alternative forms

  • -dan (during vowel harmony with back vowels)
  • -nän, -nan (colloquial, asimilation after /m/and /n/)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish ـدَنْ (-dän, -dan), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-den. Compare Turkish -den, -dan; Azerbaijani -dən, -dan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dæn/

Suffix

-dän

  1. Marks the ablative case, from, out of
    ‎ev (“house”) + ‎-dän → ‎evdän (“from the house”)
    ‎küü (“village”) + ‎-dän (“from the village”) → ‎küüdän
  2. because of, since
  3. (followed by taa) than
    kömürdän taa kara
    darker than coal
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