Learn Turkish: Asıl risk olan enflasyon bile analistleri şaşırtmadı. - Even inflation, which is the real risk, did not surprise the analysts.

In English, you can place two nouns next to each other to explain one, like "inflation, the real risk." In Turkish, to use a noun phrase (asıl risk) to describe another noun (enflasyon), you typically use the participle olan (who is / which is). So, asıl risk olan enflasyon literally translates to "inflation, which is the real risk."

In English, "Even" comes at the beginning of the sentence. Why is bile placed after enflasyon?

In Turkish, the particle bile (even) must come immediately after the word or phrase it is emphasizing. Here, it emphasizes the entire subject block (asıl risk olan enflasyon), so it sits right after it.

The root verb here is related to şaşmak (to be surprised). How does it become "to surprise"?

You are seeing the causative suffix at work! The base verb şaşmak means "to be surprised" (an intransitive action). Adding the causative suffix -ırt turns it into şaşırtmak, meaning "to cause someone to be surprised," or simply "to surprise."

Why does analistler (analysts) have the accusative -i ending?