Word
Hiçbir azınlığı dışlamak doğru değil.
Meaning
It is not right to exclude any minority.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Hiçbir azınlığı dışlamak doğru değil.
değil
not
hiçbir
no / not any (determiner)
azınlık
minority
doğru
correct, true
Questions & Answers about Hiçbir azınlığı dışlamak doğru değil.
This lesson focuses on attitude verbs ending in -ımsamak or -imsemek. Is dışlamak part of this group?
It is conceptually very similar! Both involve turning a noun or adjective into a verb to express an attitude or behavior toward something. However, dışlamak uses the extremely common -lAmAk suffix rather than -(I)msEmEk. It is built from dış (outside), so dışlamak literally means "to treat as outside," which we translate as "to exclude" or "to ostracize."
How is azınlığı built, and why does it have an accusative ending?
The root is az (few/little), which becomes the noun azınlık (minority). Even though hiçbir means "any" or "no" in this context, the entire phrase hiçbir azınlığı is still the specific direct object of the verb dışlamak. Therefore, it takes the accusative suffix -ı, and consonant mutation softens the final k into a ğ.
Could we say hiçbir azınlıkları if we wanted to translate it as "any minorities"?
No. A strict rule in Turkish is that the word hiçbir (no/any) must always be followed by a singular noun. Even if the English translation sounds perfectly natural in the plural ("It's not right to exclude any minorities"), the Turkish noun must remain singular.
How does the grammar of "is not right to exclude" work here?