kazanmasn
Kazanmasn is an ASCII rendering of the Turkish verb form kazanmasın, derived from kazanmak meaning “to win” or “to earn.” It belongs to the negative optative (jussive) mood in Turkish and is used to express a wish that something not happen or to issue a prohibition within a subordinate clause. The form is built from the verb root kazan-, plus the negation suffix -ma, and the third-person singular optative suffix -sın, yielding kazanmasın.
The standard Turkish spelling is kazanmasın, with the dotless i in the suffix. In contexts where Turkish
- Yağmur yağmasın. Let it not rain.
- O kazanmasın. Let him not win.
- Kazanmasınlar. Let them not win.
- Kazanmayayım. Let me not win.
Kazanmasın is primarily a grammatical construct within Turkish sentence structures and is especially encountered in formal,