Word
Başkan, kendi menfaati adına değil, toplum adına çalışıyor.
Meaning
The president is working not for the sake of his own interest, but on behalf of society.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Başkan, kendi menfaati adına değil, toplum adına çalışıyor.
değil
not
çalışmak
to work / to study
başkan
president, chairman
kendi
self
Questions & Answers about Başkan, kendi menfaati adına değil, toplum adına çalışıyor.
Why does menfaat become menfaati with an -i, but toplum stays as just toplum before adına?
Adına can follow a bare noun for general concepts (like toplum adına - "on behalf of society") or a possessed/genitive noun for specific things. Here, kendi menfaati has the 3rd person possessive suffix -i because it belongs to the subject ("his own interest"). If it were "on behalf of the society", you might also see the genitive: toplumun adına.
What is the literal meaning of adına, and how does it work grammatically?
Literally, it means "to its name" (ad = name, -ı = 3rd person possessive, -n- = buffer, -a = dative case). In this lesson's context, it has become a fixed formal postposition meaning "on behalf of" or "for the sake of".
Why doesn't the t in menfaat change to a d when the vowel suffix -i is added?
Menfaat (interest/benefit) is an Arabic loanword. Many of these loanwords ending in -at or -et (like saat, hayat, devlet) are exceptions to the usual consonant softening rule where p, ç, t, k become b, c, d, ğ. Therefore, the t remains hard.