бээр

Tuvan

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bēr- (“to give”). Cognate with Tofa бәәр, Khakas пирерге (pirerge), Yakut биэр (bier), Southern Altai берер (berer), Kazakh беру (beru), Turkish vermek, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beːɾ/, [be̞ːɾ]

Verb

бээр • (beer) (stem бер-)

1. to give

   Меңээ билеттен берип көрүңер. ― Meñee biletten berip körüñer. ― Please give me the ticket.

2. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfective of a verb, following its imperfective converbal in variant -е (-e), -э (-e), -и (-i), -ү (-ü), -а (-a), -ы (-ı), -у (-u), or -й (-y)

   Ол үне берген ― Ol üne bergen ― He left.

   Хенертен чаъс чай берген. ― Xenerten çàs çay bergen. ― Suddenly, it started to rain. (inceptively)

   • (Can we date this quote?), “Чыраа-хоор [Çıraa-xoor, Chyraa-khoor]”:

     Оюн салчак арбын чоннуң ортузунга чурттай бээр мен

     Oyun salçak arbın çonnuñ ortuzunga çurttay beer men

     I will live there along the populous tribes of the Oyuns and the Salchaks

3. (auxiliary) Used to indicate an action having its external concern or purpose, following associative converbal in -п (-p) or its epenthetic variants

   Меңээ адың чугаалап бер. ― Meñee adıñ çugaalap ber. ― Tell me your name.

See also

• алыр (alır, “to take”)
• эгелээр (egeleer)