tabı
/tabɯ/
1. opportunity, chance, favorable moment
- tabı tüşse — if the opportunity comes
- tabı tüşdü — a favorable chance came
- tabı tüşse kelirge bolluqbuz — if the chance comes, we will be able to come
- tabı tüşgen közüw — a favorable moment
- menŋe tabı tüşmedi — no chance came to me
- tabı tabılmadı — no opportunity was found
2. the best way, the easiest way of doing something — With a following postposition it gives the sense of doing a thing as is best or as is convenient.
- tabı bla jürürge — to act as is best
- tabına köre — as is most convenient
- bilgen adam tabın aytır — a knowledgeable person will say what is best
- tabına tüzelirge — to get the knack of something
Cases
| Case | —plain |
|---|---|
| Nominative | tabıthe opportunity |
| Genitive | tabınıthe opportunity's |
| Accusative | tabınthe opportunity (as the object) |
| Dative | tabınato the opportunity |
| Locative | tabındain / at the opportunity |
| Ablative | tabındanfrom the opportunity |
This word is itself a possessed form, so its endings take a possessive's buffer n — tabına, tabında — and it takes no further owner and no plural.
The endings are the same ones the pronouns wear — that page explains when each case is used.