jıllıq
/dʒɯllɯq/
1. annual, yearly, one-year-old — With a number in front it gives an age or a length of time.
- bir jıllıq boljal — a one-year term
- jıllıq kursla — year-long courses
- eki jıllıq qıyınım — my two years of labor
- eki jıllıq sabiy — a two-year-old child
- jıllıq tay taw betinde çabdı — the one-year-old foal galloped on the mountainside
2. anniversary
- elni altmış jıllığı — the village's sixtieth anniversary
- elni jıllığın belgiledik — we marked the village's anniversary
- toynu jıllığı jetdi — the anniversary of the wedding came
- jıllığına köb adam jıyıldı — many people gathered for its anniversary
3. memorial feast held a year after a death
- appanı jıllığı — grandfather's one-year memorial
- atasını jıllığına bardıq — we went to his father's one-year memorial
- appanı jıllığına beşli ögüz soyuldu — a five-year-old ox was slaughtered for grandfather's one-year memorial
- bügün jıllığın etdile — today they held his one-year memorial
- jıllıqğa juwuqla keldile — relatives came to the one-year memorial
4. age, years of age (of a person)
- jıllığı kelgen adam — a person advanced in years
- jıllığı kelse da — though he is getting on in years
- jıllığı jetgen jaş — a young man who has come of age
Saying it about mine, yours, theirs
One thing
| Degree | menikimine | senikiyours | anıqıhis / hers | biznikiours | siznikiyours (pl.) | alanıqıtheirs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| base form | meniki jıllıqdımine is annual | seniki jıllıqdıyours is annual | anıqı jıllıqdıhis is annual | bizniki jıllıqdıours is annual | sizniki jıllıqdıyours (pl.) is annual | alanıqı jıllıqdıtheirs is annual |
Several things
| Degree | menikilemine | senikileyours | anıqılahis / hers | biznikileours | siznikileyours (pl.) | alanıqılatheirs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| base form | menikile jıllıqdılamine are annual | senikile jıllıqdılayours are annual | anıqıla jıllıqdılahis are annual | biznikile jıllıqdılaours are annual | siznikile jıllıqdılayours (pl.) are annual | alanıqıla jıllıqdılatheirs are annual |
Any thing takes the third-person ending, not only these: bu jıllıqdı, bıla jıllıqdıla. In texts biznikile is usually kesibiznikile, "our own people", and a surname with -nıqıla names a family: Dudalanıqıla, "the Dudas".