Breakdown of Müdür, işçileri yıldırmak ve susturmak pahasına sansür uyguladı.
müdür
manager, director
ve
and
uygulamak
to implement / to apply
işçi
worker
pahasına
at the cost of
sansür
censorship
yıldırmak
to deter / to intimidate
susturmak
to silence
Questions & Answers about Müdür, işçileri yıldırmak ve susturmak pahasına sansür uyguladı.
How does pahasına connect to the verbs yıldırmak and susturmak?
The postposition pahasına means "at the cost of" or "at the risk of." When used with verbs, it follows the -mAk infinitive form directly, without needing any case endings like the dative or ablative. Here, it applies to both infinitives connected by ve, creating the phrase "at the cost of intimidating and silencing."
Both yıldırmak and susturmak end in similar causative suffixes. What are their root verbs?
They come from the roots yılmak (to be daunted / to give up) and susmak (to be quiet). Adding the causative suffixes -dır and -tur changes them to yıldırmak (to cause to be daunted / to intimidate) and susturmak (to cause to be quiet / to silence). This is a great example of how you can build advanced verbs from basic roots.
Why is işçileri in the accusative case here?
It serves as the definite direct object of the actions yıldırmak and susturmak. In Turkish, even when verbs are turned into infinitives (as they are here to be paired with pahasına), they still govern objects and take case endings exactly as they would if they were the main conjugated verb of the sentence.
Could we just use a single verb for "censored" instead of the phrase sansür uyguladı?
Yes, you could use the verb sansürledi (from sansürlemek, meaning "to censor"). However, sansür uygulamak (literally "to apply censorship" or "to implement censorship") is a very common, slightly more formal collocation often preferred in journalism, politics, and business contexts.
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