Word
Kolumun hiç acımamasına rağmen dövme yaptıracakken aniden ağlamaya başladım.
Meaning
Despite my arm not hurting at all, I suddenly started crying just as I was about to get a tattoo.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Kolumun hiç acımamasına rağmen dövme yaptıracakken aniden ağlamaya başladım.
hiç
at all / any
başlamak
to begin, to start
ağlamak
to cry
kol
arm / handle
Questions & Answers about Kolumun hiç acımamasına rağmen dövme yaptıracakken aniden ağlamaya başladım.
How does yaptıracakken translate to "just as I was about to get"?
It combines the future tense suffix -acak and the adverbial suffix -ken (while/when). When you attach -ken to the future tense (-acakken), it expresses an interrupted intention or something that was on the verge of happening: "while I was going to" or "just as I was about to".
Why use the verb yaptıracakken instead of just yapacakken?
Because the speaker isn't drawing the tattoo on themselves. The base verb yapmak means "to do" or "to make". Adding the causative suffix -tır makes it yaptırmak (to have something done by someone else). In Turkish, you don't "make" a tattoo, you "have a tattoo made" (dövme yaptırmak).
Why are there two -ma suffixes in acımamasına?
They do two different jobs! The first -ma is the negative suffix (acı-ma, not hurt). The second -ma is the verbal noun suffix, which turns the verb into a noun concept (acı-ma-ma, the act of not hurting).
Can you break down the rest of the suffixes on acımamasına?