Word
Ayrımcılık ile ilgili zihniyetini garipsemiyordum.
Meaning
I didn't use to find your mindset about discrimination strange.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Ayrımcılık ile ilgili zihniyetini garipsemiyordum.
ile
with / by / and (linking nouns)
ilgili
related, concerning
garipsemek
to find strange (odd)
zihniyet
mindset
Questions & Answers about Ayrımcılık ile ilgili zihniyetini garipsemiyordum.
How does the target suffix '-(I)msEmEk' work in the word garipsemiyordum?
The base word is the adjective garip (strange). By adding the attitude/perception suffix, we get garipsemek, which means "to find strange" or "to consider strange." Note that while the suffix is often categorized broadly as -(I)msEmEk (like in benimsemek or küçümsemek), it sometimes takes the shorter form -sEmEk, as it does here in garipsemek.
Why is there an -i- in the middle of garipsemiyordum instead of an -e-?
This is an example of vowel narrowing caused by the -yor suffix. The stem plus the negative suffix is garipseme-. Because Turkish doesn't allow a wide vowel (a or e) directly before -yor, the -e in the negative suffix narrows to an -i, making it garipsemiyor- rather than garipsemeyor-.
The translation says "your mindset." Could zihniyetini also mean "his/her mindset"?
Yes, absolutely. Out of context, this word is completely ambiguous. It can be parsed as zihniyet-in-i (mindset + your + accusative) or zihniyet-i-n-i (mindset + his/her + buffer letter 'n' + accusative). We only know it means "your" here because of the English translation provided.
Why is ile ilgili used here, and could I use instead?