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Questions & Answers about Çatlak onarılmalı.
What do çatlak and onarılmalı mean individually?
çatlak means “crack.”
onarılmalı comes from onarılmak (“to be repaired”) plus the necessity suffix -malı, so it means “must be repaired.”
What does the suffix -malı express in onarılmalı?
The suffix -malı expresses necessity or obligation, equivalent to “must” or “should” in English. Here, onarılmalı literally means “(it) must be repaired.”
Is onarılmalı in the passive voice? How can I tell?
Yes. The element -ıl- (a variant of -in-, -un-, -ıl-) is the passive voice marker. So onar- (repair) + -ıl- (passive) + -malı (necessity) → onarılmalı (“must be repaired”).
Why isn’t there a personal ending on onarılmalı, and which person is implied?
When you add -malı/-meli without a further personal suffix, it expresses a general, third-person obligation. No explicit subject or person ending is needed—onarılmalı simply implies “it must be repaired,” without saying who does it.
Why doesn’t çatlak have a case ending like -ı or -e?