Breakdown of Geçen ayki harcamaları hesapladım; şüphelendiğimden değil, giderlerimizi görmek istediğimden.
değil
not
istemek
to want / to require / to call for
görmek
to see
ay
month
geçen
last, previous
şüphelenmek
to suspect
hesaplamak
to calculate
harcama
expenditure
gider
expense
Questions & Answers about Geçen ayki harcamaları hesapladım; şüphelendiğimden değil, giderlerimizi görmek istediğimden.
How does the phrase şüphelendiğimden değil literally translate to "not because I was suspicious"?
This uses the negative causal structure you are focusing on right now. Starting with the verb şüphelenmek (to suspect), we add the participle -diğ and the possessive -im to get şüphelendiğim (the fact that I suspect). The ablative suffix -den provides the "because of / from" meaning. Finally, adding değil negates it entirely, creating "not because of the fact that I suspect."
Why does the sentence end with istediğimden instead of simply saying istedim?
It mirrors the grammar of the previous clause to create a direct "not because of X, but because of Y" contrast. İstediğimden uses the exact same structure as şüphelendiğimden, minus the değil. If you just said istedim (I wanted), it would form a completely separate thought rather than a direct contrasting reason.
The English translation uses both "expenditures" and "expenses". What is the difference between harcamaları and giderlerimizi?
They are very close in meaning but have slightly different roots. Harcama comes from harcamak (to spend) and refers to the active act of spending money or the money itself. Gider is more of an accounting term for outgoing money (expenses), contrasting with gelir (income). The speaker is likely using both words here simply to avoid repeating the same noun twice.
Why is there a -ki on Geçen ayki?
The suffix -ki attaches to expressions of time (or location) to turn them into adjectives. While Geçen ay is a noun phrase meaning "last month", adding -ki turns it into "belonging to last month". This allows it to directly describe the noun that follows: Geçen ayki harcamalar (last month's expenditures).
Why does giderlerimizi have an accusative -i at the end even though it sits before the infinitive verb görmek?
Verbs still assign cases to their objects even when they are in their infinitive form. Since görmek (to see) takes a direct object, and "our expenses" is a specific, defined object, it must take the accusative case to become giderlerimizi before the verb that acts upon it.
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