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Concessive Clauses
Concessive clauses are subordinate clauses that introduce a contrasting or unexpected idea to the main clause, often starting with words like although, even though, though, despite, in spite of, or while, showing a relationship where something happens even though something else might prevent it.
🔶 Conditional + particle da / də / ta / tə
Kön kiçkə awışsa da, haman esse. (Tahir Tahirov, “Ğaliyə”)
Although evening is drawing on, it is still hot.
🔶 Interrogative pronoun (‘whoever’, ‘whatever’, ‘wherever’, etc.) + conditional
Qayda barsam, qayda torsam, nişləsəm də, Xəteremdə məñge qalır tuğan ilem. (Ğabdulla Tuqay)
Wherever I go, wherever I stay, whatever I do, my home country will forever be in my memory.
🔶 Imperative forms, often rhetorical in meaning (a rarer literary form)
Tışta issen açı cillər, tuzsın qarlar, <...> Sezneñ öylər cılı, əybət: ni qayğı bar? (Ğabdulla Tuqay, “Qışqı kiç”)
Though biting winds are blowing outside, though snow is swirling, <...> your houses are warm and nice. What troubles do you have?
🔶 Negative imperative + interrogative pronoun (affirmative meaning)
Qaya ğına qarama — xalıq. (Söbbux Rafikov, “Tın yılğa buyında”)
Wherever one looks, there are people.
🔶 Verbal adverb -p/-ıp/-ep + ta/tə
Ğömer buyı şulay eşləp tə, ul oçın oçqa köç-xəl belən genə yalğıy ide. (Ğömər Bəşirov, “Tormış suqmağı”)
Although he worked like that all his life, he struggled to make ends meet.
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