No. 802 in Turkish
felaketi
"Felaketi" means "the disaster" or "the catastrophe" in English.
In a sentence
Doğal felaketi önlemek için önlemler alındı.
Measures were taken to prevent the natural disaster.
In this context, 'felaketi' refers to a natural disaster, indicating a catastrophic event or situation, and is used in the accusative case.
Erdem, hayatının en büyük felaketi ile karşılaştı.
Erdem faced the greatest disaster of his life.
Here, 'felaketi' describes a significant unfortunate event in a personal context, again appearing in the accusative case.
Felaketi andıran o sahneyi unutamadık.
We could not forget that scene resembling a disaster.
In this context, 'felaketi' metaphorically describes a scene that is reminiscent of a catastrophe, used in analogy to emphasize the severity of the situation.
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