Breakdown of Ayrımcılık ile ilgili zihniyetini garipsemiyordum.
ile
with / by / and (linking nouns)
ilgili
related, concerning
garipsemek
to find strange (odd)
zihniyet
mindset
ayrımcılık
discrimination
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 hakkında instead?
Yes, you could easily say ayrımcılık hakkındaki zihniyetini (your mindset about discrimination). İle ilgili translates literally to "related to" or "connected with," but in everyday Turkish it is constantly used interchangeably with hakkında to simply mean "about."
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