Breakdown of Madem şahsen ilgilenmiyorsun, projeyi iptal edeyim mi?
proje
project
mi
question particle (mı/mi/mu/mü)
iptal etmek
to cancel
ilgilenmek
to take care of / to deal with (attend to, show interest)
madem
seeing that, since (you say so)
şahsen
personally (speaking for oneself)
Questions & Answers about Madem şahsen ilgilenmiyorsun, projeyi iptal edeyim mi?
Can I use mademki instead of madem in this sentence?
Yes, they are completely interchangeable here. Both mean "since" or "seeing that." Madem is just the slightly shorter and more common everyday version of mademki.
Is it a rule that sentences starting with madem have to end with a suggestion or question like iptal edeyim mi?
Not a strict rule, but it is very common! Madem establishes a given fact ("Since you aren't interested..."), and the main clause usually reacts to that fact with a suggestion, a command, or a question ("...should I cancel it?").
Doesn't ilgilenmek usually need a word with the -le / -la (with) ending to say what you are interested in?
Yes, if you were explicitly saying "interested in the project", you would say proje ile ilgilenmiyorsun (or projeyle). Here, the object you are interested in is simply dropped because it is already obvious from the context, which is perfectly natural in conversational Turkish.
Why use the optative edeyim mi instead of the future tense edecek miyim?
Using the 1st person optative (-eyim / -ayım) with the question particle (mi) is the standard Turkish way to ask "Shall I...?" or "Should I...?". If you used iptal edecek miyim?, it would sound more like you are asking for a literal prediction about your own future: "Am I going to cancel it?"
The word şahsen means "personally." Is -en a standard Turkish suffix for making adverbs?
It functions as an adverbial suffix here, but it actually comes from Arabic, not native Turkish. You will see it on a specific group of borrowed words to create adverbs, such as şahsen (personally), kısmen (partially), or tamamen (completely).
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