Word
Muhalif, bu skandalı ifşa etmek için hapis pahasına her şeyi yapıyor.
Meaning
The dissident is doing everything at the cost of prison in order to expose this scandal.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Muhalif, bu skandalı ifşa etmek için hapis pahasına her şeyi yapıyor.
bu
this
yapmak
to do / to make
her
every
için
for
Questions & Answers about Muhalif, bu skandalı ifşa etmek için hapis pahasına her şeyi yapıyor.
How does pahasına connect to the noun hapis in this sentence? Does it require a specific case marker?
No, when you use a noun with pahasına to mean "at the cost/risk of [noun]", you simply use the bare, dictionary form of the noun. It creates a noun compound, literally meaning "at the cost of prison." You don't need genitive, dative, or ablative markers on hapis.
The word for prison is hapis. Since it's a word that often drops its second vowel (like in hapsi), why didn't the vowel drop here?
Vowel dropping in words like hapis only happens when you add a suffix that starts with a vowel (such as the accusative -i or a possessive suffix). Because it is used here as a bare noun followed by a separate word (pahasına), no suffix is added to hapis, so the vowel stays intact.
Why does skandalı have the accusative -ı ending here?
It is the specific, definite direct object of the verb ifşa etmek (to expose). Even though ifşa etmek is an infinitive used inside an için clause (in order to expose), it still governs its own objects and requires the accusative case just like a conjugated verb would.
Why is it her şeyi instead of just her şey yapıyor?