Questions & Answers about Ispanağı fazla sevmiyorum, ama marullu salatada biraz olunca sorun etmiyorum.
Two things are happening:
Accusative suffix is added: -ı
- ıspanak → ıspanak-ı
Final k often softens to ğ before a vowel-initial suffix
- ıspanak-ı → ıspanağı
So ıspanağı is the form of ıspanak with the accusative ending.
This kind of change is very common in Turkish:
- çocuk → çocuğu
- köpek → köpeği
- yemek → yemeği
Because ıspanağı is the direct object of sevmiyorum.
With verbs like sevmek, Turkish can use:
- a bare noun for a more general statement: Ispanak sevmiyorum
- an accusative-marked noun for something more specific, topical, or more clearly treated as the object: Ispanağı sevmiyorum
In real speech, both can occur, but ıspanağı here sounds very natural because the speaker is clearly talking about spinach as the item under discussion.