Breakdown of Toplumun benimsediği çeşitliliği garipsemiyordu.
toplum
society
benimsemek
to embrace (an idea, belief)
garipsemek
to find strange (odd)
çeşitlilik
diversity
Questions & Answers about Toplumun benimsediği çeşitliliği garipsemiyordu.
The verb here is garipsemiyordu. How does the attitude/perception suffix work in this word?
The suffix -(I)msEmEk (which often shortens to just -sEmEk depending on the root) attaches to nouns or adjectives to mean "to perceive as X" or "to feel that something is X". Here, it attaches to garip (strange) to make garipsemek (to find strange). The rest of the word is the negative -me (narrowed to -mi before -yor), present continuous -yor, and past -du, giving us "didn't use to find strange".
I notice benimsediği looks like it might have the same suffix. Is it related?
Exactly! It is built from benim (mine) plus the same attitude suffix -se, creating benimsemek. Literally, it means "to perceive as mine," which is how Turkish expresses "to adopt," "to embrace," or "to internalize" a concept or practice.
Why is society written as Toplumun (with the genitive case) instead of just Toplum?
This is a great refresher for relative clauses. Because toplum is the subject of the action in the phrase "the diversity that society adopted", it must take the genitive case (Toplumun). The verb then takes the -dik object participle plus a possessive suffix matching the subject (benimsediği).
Let's break down çeşitliliği. Why did the k change to ğ, and what is the final -i?
The base word is çeşitlilik (diversity). Because it is the specific direct object of the verb garipsemek (what wasn't he finding strange? The diversity), it requires the accusative case suffix -i. Whenever a vowel suffix is added to a multi-syllable word ending in -k, that hard k softens into a ğ, resulting in çeşitliliği.
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