Breakdown of Birkaç pürüze rağmen mutabakat bozulmadı.
bozulmak
to break down / to spoil
birkaç
a few, several
rağmen
despite / in spite of
pürüz
snag / hitch
Questions & Answers about Birkaç pürüze rağmen mutabakat bozulmadı.
Since birkaç means "a few", why is the noun singular (pürüze) rather than plural (pürüzlere)?
In Turkish, quantifiers that inherently express plurality (like birkaç, birçok, or numbers like beş) are always followed by a singular noun. Adding the plural suffix -ler here would be a grammatical mistake.
Why does pürüz take the dative case ending -e here?
The postposition rağmen (despite/in spite of) always governs the dative case. It forces the preceding noun to take the -e or -a suffix, transforming pürüz (snag/flaw) into pürüze.
Mutabakat is a formal loanword ending in 't'. If it took a vowel suffix, would that 't' mutate to a 'd'?
No, it stays a hard 't'. While native Turkish words often soften a final 't' to 'd' between vowels (consonant mutation), many Arabic loanwords ending in -at (like dikkat, hakikat, or mutabakat) are exceptions. For example, adding the accusative case would simply make it mutabakatı.
Why do we use bozulmadı instead of the simpler bozmadı?