Word
Teknoloji bağımlılık yaratmakla beraber mahremiyete zarar verir.
Meaning
Along with creating addiction, technology harms privacy.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Teknoloji bağımlılık yaratmakla beraber mahremiyete zarar verir.
beraber
together
ile
with / by / and (linking nouns)
zarar vermek
to damage
teknoloji
technology
Questions & Answers about Teknoloji bağımlılık yaratmakla beraber mahremiyete zarar verir.
How does yaratmakla beraber work here, and could I use birlikte instead?
yaratmakla beraber combines the infinitive yaratmak (to create) + the instrumental suffix -la (with) + the postposition beraber (together). It translates to "along with creating" or "in addition to creating." You can absolutely swap beraber with birlikte (yaratmakla birlikte) with no change in meaning. This structure is excellent for essays and formal speaking when you want to link two facts about the same subject.
Why does mahremiyet (privacy) take the dative suffix -e?
The verb at the end of the sentence is the compound zarar vermek, which literally translates to "to give harm." Because you give harm to something, the target of the harm must take the dative (directional) case. Therefore, mahremiyet becomes mahremiyete.
Why isn't bağımlılık in the accusative case (bağımlılığı) since it is the object being created?
Here, bağımlılık is an indefinite direct object—it refers to "addiction" as a general, nonspecific concept rather than the specific addiction. In Turkish, indefinite direct objects do not take the accusative case and sit directly next to the verb (or in this sentence, the verbal noun yaratmak).
Why does the sentence use the aorist tense (verir) rather than the present continuous ()?