Breakdown of Morötesi ışığın sönmesine rağmen parşömeni okuduk.
okumak
to read
parşömen
a parchment; scroll
morötesi ışık
ultraviolet light
-masına rağmen
despite someone doing it
Questions & Answers about Morötesi ışığın sönmesine rağmen parşömeni okuduk.
What does rağmen mean here, and how is it used?
Rağmen means despite / in spite of.
In Turkish, rağmen usually comes after a noun or a verbal noun phrase in the dative case.
So here:
- sönmesine rağmen = despite its going out / although it went out
The pattern is often:
- X-e rağmen = despite X
- verb-me/ma-si-na rağmen = despite its doing / although it did
So this sentence uses a very common Turkish structure for concession: something happened even though something else was a problem.
Why is it sönmesine rağmen and not just söndü rağmen?