Learn Turkish: Sürgün pahasına, eski patronunun sırlarını ifşa edecek. - At the cost of exile, she will expose the secrets of her former boss.

When using pahasına (at the cost of / at the risk of) with a noun, the noun stays in its bare, absolute dictionary form. Unlike some postpositions that require the dative or ablative case (like -e göre or -den dolayı), pahasına simply follows the plain noun.

What is the literal breakdown of the word pahasına?

It is built on the noun paha (price, value). To this, we add the 3rd-person possessive suffix -sı (its price), the buffer letter -n-, and the dative case -a (to/at). Literally, it translates to 'at its price'.

If sır (secret) usually doubles its final consonant when taking a suffix (like sırrı), why doesn't it happen in sırlarını?

Words like sır or hak only double their final consonant when a suffix starting with a vowel is added directly to the root. Here, the first suffix attached is the plural -lar, which starts with a consonant. Since no vowel is touching the root, no doubling happens, and the rest of the suffixes attach normally.

Could you break down the suffixes in the phrase eski patronunun sırlarını?