-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