No. 1,749 in Turkish
tir
"Truck" or "lorry."
In a sentence
Bu kamyon bir tırdır.
This truck is a tractor-trailer.
In this sentence, 'tır' refers to a large road freight vehicle (a semi-trailer truck).
Sonunda anladım ki mutluluk içimizdedir.
Finally, I understood that happiness is within us.
Here, 'dır' is a copula suffix in Turkish that connects the subject to the predicate, expressing existence or truth emphatically.
Hiçbir yük yüklenmemiş tır yol kenarında park halindeydi.
An unloaded trailer was parked by the roadside.
In this instance, 'tır' is used to describe a specific type of freight transport vehicle.
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