Word
Heyetin şiddeti kınadığına ilişkin yeni bir detay duyduk.
Meaning
We heard a new detail about the delegation condemning the violence.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Heyetin şiddeti kınadığına ilişkin yeni bir detay duyduk.
bir
a / an
yeni
new
duymak
to hear
detay
detail
Questions & Answers about Heyetin şiddeti kınadığına ilişkin yeni bir detay duyduk.
Why does kınadığına have a dative ending here?
The postposition ilişkin (meaning "regarding" or "relating to") requires the word before it to be in the dative case. First, the verb kınamak (to condemn) becomes a factive noun clause using -dık and the 3rd person possessive -ı (kınadığı). Then, we add the buffer letter -n- and the dative suffix -a to link it directly to ilişkin.
Why is the subject of the clause, heyetin, in the genitive case?
In Turkish, subordinate noun clauses created with -dık or -(y)acak behave grammatically like possessed nouns. The subject of the action (heyet) takes the genitive case (-in), and the verb gets a matching possessive ending. Literally, this translates to "the delegation's condemning".
Could I use hakkında instead of ilişkin to mean "about"?
Yes, but the grammar would change slightly. While ilişkin and dair require the preceding word to be in the dative case (kınadığına ilişkin), hakkında does not take the dative case. If you used it here, you would drop the dative suffix and say: heyetin şiddeti kınadığı hakkında.
Why is şiddet (violence) marked with the accusative suffix -i?