Questions & Answers about Aracın tavanı gri renge boyanmış ve kahverengi şeritler eklenmiş.
aracın carries the genitive suffix -ın, marking “of the vehicle.”
tavanı adds the 3rd-person singular possessive suffix -ı, meaning “its roof” or “the roof of it.”
Together they form “the vehicle’s roof.”
When you say “painted into a color” in Turkish, the color noun takes the dative ending -e: renk + -e (“into the color”).
Thus gri renge boyanmış literally means “has been painted into gray.”
Here, boyanmış is boyanmak (the passive of boyamak) plus -mış, the past evidential suffix. It shows:
• A passive meaning (“has been painted”)
• An inference or unobserved action (speaker didn’t directly perform or see it)
boyandı (with -dı) would be the direct past tense, implying the speaker saw or did the painting.
- Start with the verb stem: boya-, ekle-.
- Add the passive marker -(I)n (vowel I harmonizes to the stem): boyan-, eklen-.
- Attach the desired tense/evidential ending, e.g. -mış, -dı, -iyor.
Result: boyanmış, eklenmiş, etc.
The second clause has its own subject (kahverengi şeritler), so tavanı is not re-marked. If you wanted to express “added to the roof,” you’d say:
Aracın tavanına kahverengi şeritler eklenmiş
(adding -na to tavanı in that clause). Here, the writer chose a coordinate structure: “the roof … painted gray” and “stripes … added.”