Breakdown of Müşteri çok ısrarcı fakat biz bu kaba tavırlara göz yummuyoruz.
bu
this
biz
we
çok
very
müşteri
customer
Questions & Answers about Müşteri çok ısrarcı fakat biz bu kaba tavırlara göz yummuyoruz.
The current lesson is about the '-mazlıktan gelmek' (pretending not to...) structure. Could we use 'görmezlikten gelmiyoruz' here instead of 'göz yummuyoruz'?
They are similar, but have a distinct nuance. Görmezlikten gelmek means 'to pretend not to see' or simply 'to ignore.' Göz yummak, on the other hand, means 'to turn a blind eye' in the sense of tolerating or condoning something wrong. Since the company is refusing to tolerate rude behavior, göz yummak is the much better fit.
Why is 'tavırlar' in the dative case ('tavırlara')?
The idiom göz yummak always takes the dative case for the thing being tolerated or ignored. Just as in English you turn a blind eye to something, in Turkish you add the dative suffix -e/-a, giving us tavırlara.
How is the word 'ısrarcı' formed?
It is built from the Arabic loanword ısrar (insistence). By adding the Turkish habitual/attachment suffix -cı (which you already know from words like öğrenci or fırıncı), it becomes ısrarcı—someone who is habitually insistent, or 'pushy'.
Doesn't the noun 'tavır' (attitude) usually drop its second vowel when a suffix is added?