Breakdown of İnsanlar ırkçılıktan nefret ediyor ve eşitlik istiyor.
ve
and
insan
person
istemek
to want / to require / to call for
nefret etmek
to hate
Questions & Answers about İnsanlar ırkçılıktan nefret ediyor ve eşitlik istiyor.
Why is it ırkçılıktan (from racism) instead of just ırkçılık?
The verb nefret etmek (to hate) always takes the ablative case (-dan/-den/-tan/-ten). In Turkish, you don't just hate something; you hate from it. Because ırkçılık ends in the hard consonant k, the suffix becomes -tan.
Could I use karşı (against) to express a similar idea here?
Yes! If you wanted to say "People are against racism" instead of hating it, you would use karşı. Remember that karşı requires the dative case, so you would say İnsanlar ırkçılığa karşı (notice the k softens to ğ when the dative -a is added).
İnsanlar is plural, so why are the verbs ediyor and istiyor singular?
When the subject of a sentence is a plural human (like insanlar), adding the plural suffix -lar or -ler to the verb is optional. Saying ediyorlar and istiyorlar is grammatically correct, but leaving the verb singular is very common and sounds natural because it avoids repeating the plural sound.
How do the suffixes in ırkçılık and eşitlik work to build these words?