Breakdown of Medya siyaset hakkında hiçbir şey bilmiyor.
bilmek
to know
şey
thing
hiçbir
no / not any (determiner)
hakkında
about, concerning
medya
media
siyaset
politics
Questions & Answers about Medya siyaset hakkında hiçbir şey bilmiyor.
Why does siyaset stay in its base form before hakkında?
When hakkında (about) is used with regular nouns like siyaset (politics), the noun stays in its bare dictionary form. Note that if you were using a pronoun instead, it would need the genitive case, like benim hakkımda (about me).
Could we use the other topic postpositions like ile ilgili or -A dair in this sentence?
Yes! You could say siyasetle ilgili (related to politics) or siyasete dair (pertaining to politics). siyaset hakkında is just the most standard and direct way to say "about politics" in everyday speech.
Why is the verb bilmiyor negative if hiçbir şey already means "nothing"?
Turkish uses a double negative structure. Words with hiç (like hiçbir şey for "nothing" or hiç kimse for "nobody") must be paired with a negative verb. Because of this, bilmiyor (doesn't know) is used instead of a positive verb.
I often see hiçbir written as one word, but şey written separately. Is this a strict rule?
Yes, the word şey (thing) is always written as a separate word in Turkish. You must always leave a space before it, which is why we write hiçbir şey (nothing), her şey (everything), and bir şey (something).
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