Learn Turkish: Gazeteci, sansüre rağmen hükümetteki yolsuzluğu yazdı. - The journalist wrote about the corruption in the government despite the censorship.

Word

Gazeteci, sansüre rağmen hükümetteki yolsuzluğu yazdı.

Meaning

The journalist wrote about the corruption in the government despite the censorship.

Part of speech

sentence

Pronunciation

Course

Turkish

Lesson

At the cost of (-mAk pahasına)

Breakdown of Gazeteci, sansüre rağmen hükümetteki yolsuzluğu yazdı.

despite / in spite of

Questions & Answers about Gazeteci, sansüre rağmen hükümetteki yolsuzluğu yazdı.

Since this lesson is about pahasına, what would happen if we said sansür pahasına instead of sansüre rağmen?

It would completely change the meaning. Sansüre rağmen means the journalist wrote despite existing censorship. If you used sansür pahasına (at the cost of censorship), it would imply that writing the article would actually cause the censorship as a negative consequence.

Why does sansür end with an -e here?

The postposition rağmen (despite) always requires the preceding noun to be in the dative case. Therefore, sansür takes the dative suffix -e to become sansüre.

What is the function of -ki in hükümetteki?

The suffix -ki acts as a linker that turns a locative phrase into an adjective. By attaching it to hükümette (in the government), it describes the following noun, so hükümetteki yolsuzluğu translates to the corruption that is in the government.

Why is the word for corruption spelled yolsuzluğu here instead of yolsuzluk?