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When exposing scandals and fighting corruption, whistleblowers often take massive risks. To express doing something "at the cost of" or "at the risk of" a severe consequence, Turkish uses the word **pahasına**.

This word stems from **paha** (price or value). Combined with a possessive and dative suffix, **pahasına** literally means "at its price."

### Nouns + pahasına

If the risk is a noun—such as exile, prison, or death—simply place the bare noun directly before **pahasına**. No additional case markers are needed on the noun.

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### Verbs (-mAk) + pahasına

When the risk or cost is an action (like losing a job or being shut down), use the full infinitive form of the verb (**-mak** or **-mek**) immediately followed by **pahasına**.

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### The Price of Oppression

While **pahasına** is frequently used for heroic sacrifices, it can also describe the extreme lengths bad actors will go to protect their secrets. In these cases, it implies they took an action "even if it meant" causing harm, intimidating others, or committing a crime to achieve their goal.

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At the cost of (-mAk pahasına)

adjective

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

particle

postposition

preposition

pronoun

sentence

verb

Demonstrative pronouns (bu, şu, o)

Basic question words (kim, ne)

Plural nouns (-lar, -ler)

I am and you are (-(y)ım, -sın)

We, you, and they are (-(y)ız, -sınız)

Negative statements (değil)

Yes and no questions (mı, mi, mu, mü)

Questions with 'to be' (mısın, mıyım)

Numbers 1 to 10 (bir, iki, üç)

Numbers 11 to 20 (on bir, on iki)

Numbers by tens to 100 (otuz, kırk...)

Counting objects (tane)

The locative case (-da, -de)

Consonant assimilation (-ta, -te)

Asking where (nerede)

There is / there are (var)

There is not / there are not (yok)

Asking how many (kaç)

Infinitive verbs (-mak, -mek)

Informal commands (git, gel)

Negative commands (-ma, -me)

Polite and plural commands (-In, -InIz)

Basic word order

Present continuous for consonant roots (-iyor)

Present continuous for vowel roots (-iyor)

Present continuous personal suffixes (-iyorum)

Negative present continuous (-miyor)

Present continuous questions (-iyor mu)

Future plans with present continuous

The dative case (-(y)a, -(y)e)

Consonant mutation (k, t, p, ç to ğ, d, b, c)

From or out of (-dan / -den)

Directional question words (nereye, nereden)

First and second person possessives (-(i)m, -(i)n)

Third person possessive (-(s)i)

Plural possessives (-imiz, -iniz, -leri)

The genitive case (-(n)in)

Definite noun compounds (-nin ... -si)

Indefinite noun compounds (bare noun + -(s)i)

Possessive buffer letter (n)

Spatial postpositions (içinde, üstünde)

The definite direct object (-(y)ı, -(y)i)

Object question words (kimi, neyi)

Adjectives modifying nouns

Manner and choice questions (nasıl, hangi)

Basic degree modifiers (çok, biraz)

Comparisons (daha, en)

Days of the week

Months of the year

The time question word (ne zaman)

Telling time (saat, buçuk)

Asking the time (saat kaç, saat kaçta)

Basic conjunctions (ve, ama, veya)

Causality conjunction (çünkü)

Means and accompaniment (ile, -(y)lA)

Purpose and beneficiaries (için)

Expressing desire (-mak istemek)

The past copula (-(y)DI)

The direct past tense (-DI)

Past tense personal suffixes (-DIm, -DIn)

Past tense negative (-mAdI)

Past tense questions (-DI mI)

Ordinal numbers (-(I)ncI)

Greetings and politeness

Saying 'too' (de, da)

Conversation fillers (şey, yani, hadi)

Conversational essentials

Reflexive pronouns (kendim, kendin)

Reciprocal pronouns (birbiri)

Indefinite pronouns for people (herkes, kimse)

Indefinite pronouns for things and places (her şey, hiçbir şey)

Conjunctions of consequence (bu yüzden, bu nedenle)

Correlative conjunctions (hem... hem, ne... ne)

Verbs taking the dative case (-e / -a)

Verbs taking the ablative case (-den / -dan)

Time origin (beri)

Time duration (-DIr)

Comparisons of similarity (gibi)

Comparisons of equality (kadar)

Perspectives (göre)

Verbal nouns (-mA / -mE)

Verbal nouns as objects (-mAyI / -mEyI)

Verbal nouns with the dative (-mAyA / -mEyA)

General necessity (lazım / gerek)

Personal necessity (-mAm lazım)

Third-person commands (-sIn / -sInlAr)

First person singular optative (-(y)AyIm)

Question	Answer
censorship	sansür
corruption	yolsuzluk
The journalist wrote about the corruption in the government despite the censorship.	Gazeteci, sansüre rağmen hükümetteki yolsuzluğu yazdı.
to expose	ifşa etmek
He exposed this massive corruption at the cost of losing his job.	İşini kaybetmek pahasına bu büyük yolsuzluğu ifşa etti.
dissident	muhalif
The dissident is doing everything at the cost of prison in order to expose this scandal.	Muhalif, bu skandalı ifşa etmek için hapis pahasına her şeyi yapıyor.
exile	sürgün
At the cost of exile, she will expose the secrets of her former boss.	Sürgün pahasına, eski patronunun sırlarını ifşa edecek.
gang	çete
He will do everything at the cost of death in order to expose the corruption and stop the gang.	Yolsuzluğu ifşa etmek ve çeteyi durdurmak için ölüm pahasına her şeyi yapacak.
headline	manşet
The gang secretly threatened those who wrote yesterday's headline.	Çete, dünkü manşeti atanları gizlice tehdit etti.
secrecy / confidentiality	gizlilik
The reporter protected the confidentiality of the sources at the cost of exile.	Muhabir, sürgün pahasına kaynakların gizliliğini korudu.
The newspaper is publishing that brave headline at the cost of being closed down.	Gazete, kapatılmak pahasına o cesur manşeti yayımlıyor.
to deter / to intimidate	yıldırmak
They have no choice other than blackmail to deter the dissidents.	Muhalifleri yıldırmak için şantajdan başka çareleri yok.
The brave reporter will never hide the facts at the cost of exile.	Cesur muhabir, sürgün pahasına gerçekleri asla gizlemeyecek.
to silence	susturmak
The manager applied censorship at the cost of intimidating and silencing the workers.	Müdür, işçileri yıldırmak ve susturmak pahasına sansür uyguladı.
The gang protected the secrecy at the cost of silencing the journalist.	Çete, gazeteciyi susturmak pahasına gizliliği korudu.
to obtain	elde etmek
He obtained a good result by working hard.	Çok çalışarak iyi sonuç elde etti.
Where did you obtain this information?	Bu bilgiyi nereden elde ettin?

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