Şirket, büyük skandalı bizden gizlememiş.
The company apparently didn't hide the big scandal from us.
Breakdown of Şirket, büyük skandalı bizden gizlememiş.
büyük
big
biz
we
şirket
company
skandal
scandal
gizlemek
to hide (to conceal)
Questions & Answers about Şirket, büyük skandalı bizden gizlememiş.
Why use the -miş past tense (gizlememiş) instead of the regular past tense (gizlemedi)?
The -miş suffix is the inferential or reported past tense. You use it when you didn't witness an event directly, or when you are realizing something after the fact. Here, the speaker is deducing or reporting that the company apparently didn't hide the scandal, rather than stating it as a fact they saw happen.
How do we break down the suffixes in gizlememiş?
The root is gizle- (from gizlemek, to hide). First, we add the negative suffix -me to get gizleme-. Then we add the reported past tense suffix -miş, making gizlememiş. Since the subject is the company (which is a third-person it), there is no extra personal ending.
Why does skandal have an -ı at the end?
The word skandalı is in the accusative case. Because the company didn't hide a specific, known object (the big scandal), we must add the accusative suffix -ı to show it is the direct object of the verb.
Why do we use bizden instead of just bize?
The verb gizlemek (to hide) takes the ablative case when you mention who is being kept in the dark. So biz (we or us) takes the -den suffix to become bizden (from us). This translates very literally to how we say it in English!
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