Breakdown of Mantolama pahalı; öte yandan ortak alan ısınacak.
pahalı
expensive
ısınmak
to heat up
öte yandan
on the other hand
ortak alan
a common area
Questions & Answers about Mantolama pahalı; öte yandan ortak alan ısınacak.
Why is there no verb in Mantolama pahalı? Shouldn’t it mean Mantolama pahalıdır?
In Turkish, the present-tense to be is often omitted in simple statements.
So:
- Mantolama pahalı. = Insulation is expensive.
- Mantolama pahalıdır. = also correct, but slightly more formal, more definite, or more like a general statement.
This is very common in everyday Turkish:
- Ev büyük. = The house is big.
- Hava soğuk. = The weather is cold.
So pahalı is functioning like the predicate of the sentence even without an overt verb.
What exactly does mantolama mean here?
Mantolama usually refers to building insulation, especially external thermal insulation on a building.
In everyday Turkish, it often means the kind of insulation added to apartment buildings to keep heat in and reduce energy costs. Depending on context, it can be translated as:
- insulation
- thermal insulation
- exterior insulation
- sometimes cladding in a construction context
So in this sentence, it most likely means the process or system of insulating the building.
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