Word
İlacın tesir etmesine rağmen, bu dert onun umurunda olmadı.
Meaning
Despite the medicine having an effect, he didn't care about this trouble.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of İlacın tesir etmesine rağmen, bu dert onun umurunda olmadı.
bu
this
o
that / he / she / it
ilaç
medicine
rağmen
despite / in spite of
Questions & Answers about İlacın tesir etmesine rağmen, bu dert onun umurunda olmadı.
Since this lesson is about the ha ... ha ... conjunction, how could we rewrite this sentence to use it?
You could say Ha ilaç tesir etmiş ha etmemiş, bu dert onun umurunda olmadı. This shifts the meaning slightly from "Despite the medicine having an effect..." to "Whether the medicine had an effect or not, he didn't care about this trouble." The ha ... ha ... structure perfectly captures that feeling of total indifference.
Why is it ilacın tesir etmesine with all those suffixes before rağmen?
The word rağmen (despite) always requires the dative case (-e or -a). Because we are saying "despite the medicine's having an effect", we have to build a genitive-possessive phrase. İlaç takes the genitive (-ın), and the verbal noun tesir etme takes the possessive (-si) followed by the buffer -n- and the dative -e, resulting in ilacın tesir etmesine.
I usually see etki for "effect". Is tesir just a synonym?
Yes, tesir is an older Arabic loanword meaning "effect" or "influence", while etki is its modern Turkish equivalent. They are entirely interchangeable in this context, so you could just as easily say İlacın etki etmesine rağmen.
How does the phrase umurunda olmadı literally translate?